Page 61 - BCI Bonsai & Stone Appreciation Q1 2025

Facing page:
Top: The venue’s main
building, designed by
celebrated Canadian architect
Raymond Moriyama.
Top inset: Opening ceremony
with guests Bill and Dianne
Valavanis, Éric Auger, curator
of the Montreal Botanical
Garden’s bonsai collection, and
Marianne Duhamel, curator
of the Montreal Botanical
Garden’s penjing collection.
Bottom: Mike Roussel guides
guests through the exhibit
after the opening ceremony.
This page:
Top: Best in Show, Scots Pine,
Pinus sylvestris RAF, by Aaron
Khalid.
Bottom: Honorable Mention,
Eastern White Cedar, Thuja
occidentalis, by Angelo
Dumitru.
To celebrate
this milestone,
TBS curated
a special
collection
of their best
trees for the
exhibit: Thuja
occidentalis,
Larix laricina,
Picea glauca
and Picea
mariana.
Reiner Goebel,
Arthur Skolnik
and John Biel
helped put
these species
on the world
bonsai map
in 1997 at the
international
convention in
Toronto.
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