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2649 trees displayed in Kishkindha Moolika Bonsai Garden set a Guinness World Record!
SBy Avadhoota Datta Peetham, India
ri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji achieved a Guinness World Record by display- ing the largest number of Bonsai Trees. 2649
trees were displayed in Kishkindha Moolika Bonsai Garden of Avadhoota Datta Peetham, Mysore on December 21, 2016.
is was possible because of the participation and encouragement given during the recent BCI Inter- national Bonsai Conference held in December 2016 at Datta Peetham.
On seeing the exhibits and Swamiji’s own col- lection on the opening day of convention, on 19th December 2016, some of the devotees all felt sur- prised to see such a large collection of Bonsai at Mysore. ey suggested that the organizers number each tree and on the next day took trouble to pho- tograph them and arranged to send it to Guinness
World Records Authority for the larg- est bonsai display. at is when the organizers invited others to exhibit trees and arranged the exhibition in Kishkindha Moolika Garden, which itself was an Herculean E ort.
e whole hearted co-operation
received from teams of Bonsai Study
Group members, their a liated chap-
ters and other clubs and individuals to put up the display in the open spaces, plus the sponsors ex- hibiting all their own collection in the Garden in one single premise of Avadhoota Datta Peetham, Mysore, on this occasion, made it possibleto display a staggering 2,649 trees on December 21. As Guin- ness World Records says, “O cially Amazing!”
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