Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection

The Rhododendron Species Garden also hosts the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection, which has dozens of fine examples of the bonsai art.  These are just a few of them.  There is a separate building for plant care and display of more delicate specimens, and thirty to forty outside viewing stands.  The trees range in age from 4 to 400 years old.  These trees all live in the Seattle climate. 

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One of two superb examples of the upright style. Cypress.  Looks to me like a real tree that I have stood under -- when I was four inches tall. 

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Japanese pine, slanted style. Think of Point Reyes or other coastal area. 

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Japanese red maple.  Two trunks grown together.  One small piece of wire is still visible that was used to support a branch. 

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Hinoki cypress.  This tree, amazingly, to me at least, is only seventeen years old, but looks mature. 

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A bonkei (tray landscape) intended to look like a small stand of trees you might find on a windswept shore.  . 

Seattle-Tacoma, May 2008

(Courtesy Weyerhauser)

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