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One important change with the move to the new site
is the ability to look after and display trees that re-
quire frost protection. The Frost Free Area was not
included in the original budget so donations were
sought from visitors and sponsors, including many
individuals and clubs in the bonsai community. Now
there is a display area with a light weight, transpar-
ent but insulating roof and a hanging glass wall that
can be closed at night and fully opened out during
the day, as the weather requires. It does not create a
temperature-controlled hot house for tropical plants
but merely protects the non frost-tolerant species of
bonsai.
In August 2013, the move from Commonwealth Park
to the National Arboretum Canberra was completed
with the relocation of the Koreshoff Pines. The trees,
Japanese black pines, were germinated from seed im-
ported in 1951 by Vita and Dorothy Koreshoff and
were initially grown in sandy soil in a vegetable gar-
den in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. They were lifted Top; The innovative glass
walls that can be closed when
and moved to Castle Hill in 1965 and grown on as necessary to protect the
landscape-size bonsai, called niwaki in Japanese. In bonsai and penjing from the
August 2008 they were donated to the NBPCA and elements. The roof is a clear,
were installed outside the entrance to the Collection’s insulated glass.
original site in Commonwealth Park (see photograph Middle and bottom; trees
above). from the Collection;
Bottle brush, Callistemon spp.,
With the Koreshoff Pines now planted opposite the Fig, Ficus microcarpa, and
entrance to the NBPCA, the transition to the new and Montezuma cypress, Taxo-
permanent home is finished. The challenge now is to dium distichum, also known
continue the Collection’s journey by developing an as Swamp cypress or Bald
cypress.
ever-growing tradition of excellence.
Photos on this page courtesy
www.valavanisbonsaiblog.com

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