Bonsai at BBG *pic heavy*

[Heli]

As some of you know, I am doing internship at the brooklyn botanical garden. Anyway, today we were given a tour of the botanical gardens private collection, it is supposedly one of the biggest in the world. Many of these plants are over 300 years old!

 

[RL7836]

Luca,
Wow!! Thanks for sharing - there are some amazing trees in there!

By any chance, do you have any closer pics of the one on the tall table in the middle of this pic?

 

[Heli]

Thanks Ron, for some reason the links got messed up so a lot of pics didnt show, there are still a lot more to put up. I will have to go through and see if I have one.

 

[Heli]

There... just fixed the pics and added more. Ron, I dont think I got a pic of that one sorry .

 

[Peatmoss]

Kool! Going to visit the Canadian National Collection tomorrow, just the right thing to get me in the mood!

Awesome pics, and good luck with your hinternship.

 

[pills23]

Wow! I love their bonsai room, but it's so nice to see a behind-the-scenes look at their collection. Thanks for sharing!
Do they have many CPs hiding back there somewhere? Last time I was there I only saw some US temperates (sarrs, VFT, drosera) as well as D. adelae in their aquatic room. Not a nep in sight.

 

[Heli]

Yea I only got a tour of the bonsai collection but next week I might be getting a tour of David Horac's (curator of the wet house) private collection and I'm sure there will be some cps

 

[mato]

Love it, Luca! Great to see so many bonsais in a barbed wire sanctuary.

 

[Exo]

NICE...amazing to think of how old some of those must be.

 

[tommyr]

AWESOME photos and of coarse TREES! I love Bonsai, killed my share of them over the years that's for sure. LOVE those Maples! Thanks!

 

[ellisonk001]

Beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing this rare opportunity.

 

[RL7836]

Luca,
Do they have any public displays of these trees scheduled (or do they ever do any)?

Do you know Marc Hachadourian?

 

[Heli]

Ron, they have a public display on all year and cycle through the plants.

 

[Heli]

Oh and I may know Marc. Does he have a big beard and work at the children's garden?