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return home. Several books were published during the The climate offers a vast range of species, from
1950s, and in the 1960s and 1970s, clubs and societies tropical plants such as Ficus, buttonwood, and
sprang up all over the world. Exhibitions, conventions, Taxodium grown in Florida to high mountain dwellers
and workshops remained the places to share ideas, such as Rocky Mountain juniper, ponderosa pine, and
knowledge, and techniques, with teachers from Japan Engelmann spruce. In Europe it is possible to import
traveling to Europe and America in the 1980s Japanese and Chinese trees via a nondestructive
disseminating knowledge and ideas. quarantine process, but regulations in the United
States and other countries require the removal of all
Global developments soil, resulting in a high fatality rate.
Bonsai is practiced across the globe, but it is thought
that the highest level of enthusiasm, talent, and trees Across Asia the postwar bonsai boom left no country
outside Asia are found in Spain, Italy, and more untouched. Taiwan, with close cultural links to Japan,
recently in the United States. This is in part due to was considered a leading light, but recently China has
the climate and surroundings as much as their used its economic success to fuel a rebirth of penjing.
artistic nature. The availability of quality collected Large exhibitions have been held across the country
material (yamadori) and a climate conducive to the and a new exciting aesthetic is emerging. Based on
rapid development of trees is as intrinsic to the traditional styles and techniques, the image is often
improvement of bonsai as a group very different than that seen in the highly refined,
of committed enthusiasts and more static feel of Japanese trees. Each Asian country
professionals. The difficulty of has its own spin: Vietnam and Korea, for example, are
importing plants, distance, at opposing ends of the Chinese/Japanese spectrum,
and difference in growing while India developed separately from its neighbors,
conditions across the looking more to the West and teachers from the US and
United States has led UK for inspiration. With all the exciting developments
to fragmented around the world the future of bonsai looks to be just
development. as fascinating—and dynamic—as its past.

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