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“the biggest baobab

bonsai forest in the

world”

Landscape Planting

by Kat Rivier Kai

Bonsai Club

By Tobie Kleynhans, South Africa
Photographs by Sandi Kleynhans

n old bonsai friend, Lampie Schoeman, relocated
from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo province to
Sedgefield in the Southern Cape after retirement

in July 2014. Luckily, he also brought along his
Asubstantial bonsai collection.
Besides indigenous wild figs, wild olive, acacias, Lebombo ironwood

and many more, he also brought sixty-odd magnificent Baobabs.
While admiring this fantastic baobab collection, the idea of creating
a huge baobab bonsai landscape planting was born: A collective effort
by Kat Rivier Kai members to create the biggest baobab bonsai forest
in the world. Lampie liked the proposal immediately and agreed that

we could use his trees to create a monster baobab planting.

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