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Pond Cypress, Taxodium greet you along every step. Those of us who have been There’s nothing that says museum about the garden,
ascendens with him for a while say that Daniel’s motto should but many things which speak of learning and process.
be ‘Go big or go home.’ Everywhere is presence and Sometimes trees will have a line draping to another
attention to detail so great you can barely believe the tree to show you where an air layer, having become
photos of the desolate flattened ground that was the its own lovely bonsai, was removed and then artfully
canvas of this beautiful place. Great mounds of earth sculpted. Or the round flat cut of a stub is left precari-
create hills, topped with varieties of maples and other ously connected at the tip of a trunk to show just how
trees, which nestle you along paths that seem to have much wood was sculpted away to make the elegant
been there for an age. Everywhere is stone from far off lines below. Even when he’s not there to shepherd peo-
places to delight, given equal billing to the hundreds ple about the garden, Daniel wants guests to be able
of posts planted into the ground showcasing bonsai. to see for themselves what is possible and be inspired.

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