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“the biggest baobab bonsai forest in the
Landscape Planting by Kat Rivier Kai Bonsai Club
By Tobie Kleynhans, South Africa Photographs by Sandi Kleynhans
world”
An old bonsai friend, Lampie Schoeman, relocated from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo province to Sedge eld in the Southern Cape after retirement in July 2014. Luckily, he also brought along his substantial bonsai collection.
Besides indigenous wild gs, wild olive, acacias, Lebombo ironwood and many more, he also brought sixty-odd magni cent Baobabs.
While admiring this fantastic baobab collection, the idea of creating a huge baobab bonsai landscape planting was born: A collective e ort by Kat Rivier Kai members to create the biggest baobab bonsai forest in the world. Lampie liked the proposal immediately and agreed that we could use his trees to create a monster baobab planting.
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