Brooklyn Bonsai Museum Celebrates 100th Birthday Bash with Largest-Ever Exhibition on These Tiny Trees
Brooklyn Bonsai Museum Celebrates 100th Birthday Bash with Largest-Ever Exhibition on These Tiny Trees Visitors admire the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum credit – Michael Stewart / Brooklyn Botanic Garden ©9
Reprinted with permission from World at Large. One of America’s largest bonsai tree collections recently celebrated its centennial with the largest exhibition on these miniature trees ever held. The collection includes some wonders of the artform: a Rocky Mountain juniper bonsai 500 years of age, a Sargent juniper from Japan thought to be over 800 years old, and a trio of bonsai which launched the collection 100 years ago—grown still in their original vases. Running through October 19th, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum in Brooklyn, New York City, will offer tours for visitors to learn about the collection, live bonsai gardening demonstrations, an outdoor display of bonsai trees next to their fully grown cousins, screenings of a restored 22-minute film from 1971 featuring…
