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Clubs Band Together to Create a
Bonsai Garden in Western Canada

By Joan Greenway, Canada, photos courtesy Brian Greenway.
Bonsai clubs on Vancouver Island have partnered
with the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific to create
the first Bonsai Garden in Western Canada and the
second one in all of Canada. It is used as a display and
learning garden.
Visitors are greeted with bonsai at the entrance to
the HCP Garden, then have to follow path through
the Tanaka Japanese Garden, past a zen garden with
more bonsai specimens, to the top of a hill to view a
collection of 60 bonsai.
Members of the Vancouver Island clubs have loaned
or donated their bonsai and are also responsible for
ongoing care and maintenance of the trees.This bonsai
garden has been planned, built and maintained with
many hours by Vancouver Island’s Bonsai clubs’ vol-
unteers and their partners since 2012. Their creation is
a bonsai artist’s joy and rewards any visitor to Victoria.
Congratulations Vancouver Island bonsai clubs.

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