Page 31 - Tài liệu Ebook cây cảnh Bonsai and Penjing

The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is one of the oldest
Japanese-inspired gardens in the U.S. It opened to the public in 1915.
Not every Japanese-style garden or arboretum could include bonsai because
they require a major commitment of financial and personnel resources due to
their need for daily care and skilled maintenance. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
was one exception: it was given a bonsai collection in 1925. The Arnold
Arboretum was another when it received part of the Larz Anderson collection in
the 1930s.
Other major public gardens added bonsai to their collections after World
War II. The Longwood Gardens bonsai collection began in 1959 with 13 trees
purchased from Yuji Yoshimura, who also played a pivotal role in the
development of the national collection at the Arboretum. The Huntington
collection began in 1968 with the gift of a personal collection. The National
Bonsai & Penjing Museum itself was founded to house the Bicentennial Gift of

bonsai from Japan to the United States in 1976. A year later, the Chicago
Botanic Garden opened its bonsai collection, followed by other major collections
across the country and in Canada.
Today, the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum is proud to show exemplars
of the finest bonsai from around the world, brought together to allow visitors to
experience nature’s most delightful and enchanting qualities as expressed in
these living works of art.

SPOTLIGHT ON Dr. John L. Creech

Distinguished horticulturist and plant explorer, Dr. John L. Creech
(1920–2009) was Director of the U.S. National Arboretum from 1973 to