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If one were to visit Elandan Gardens for the first time, you might hear a light crunching of the gravel path behind you and a warm voice asking, “How do you like my garden?”
It’s the opening line of an invitation to explore the small world of natural delights which Daniel Robinson has created from an old abandoned landfill. Elandan is many things. It is a garden and museum, a shop and a place of creation. Many of these facets reflect a fascination for venerable beauty and the forms which only nature can produce in her long patient span of years, but all of them reflect the brilliant creativity of one family, and most of all Daniel. Elandan is the culmination of many moments of opportunity and inspiration, a living record to the continuing
work of a lifetime.
A natural bonsai guy and his fellow sojourners in the art:
The bonsai world is mad for the new young artists burgeoning out of the US, Japan, and Europe. It was so in Daniel’s earliest years as well. He
Bottom; Korean Hornbeam, Carpinus koreanensis
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