FOR SALE - Significant Collection of Specimen Bonsai Trees

We're parting with much of our bonsai collection.

Click "See The Trees" and take a look around.

About 35 years ago, on a late summer Saturday, I was lying in my hammock when my wife, Pam, said, "Lets go to the state fair". Now, I'd rather run naked down Main Street than go to the fair - not my idea of a good time, but, I needed husband points so I said, "Yes, dear". We ended up at the bonsai exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair and that began a 35 year love affair with bonsai. Since then it's been a matter of more and more bonsai trees.If you do the math you'll figure out that I'm no longer a spring chicken. The trees seem to get bigger and pots heavier every year. We've learned from bonsai masters like Susumu Nakamura, John Naka, Toshio Saburomaru, Chase Rosade, Suthin Sukolovisit, and many others. These guys taught us to make big trees. If you stop to think about it, when you finish a round of golf all you end up with is a score card. You can get 300 of those in a shoe box. But, if you're a bonsai artist when you're done with a tree you have another tree. Three hundred bonsai trees took up the whole back yard. We were running out of space and energy. We started paring things down so we could move to North Carolina last year.

Over the years much of our collection has been seen on HGTV, Discovery Channel, PBS, books and magazines. It's  hard to see our "friends" leaving, but, it was time to reduce the bonsai collection to a reasonable level (we're down  to about 100). We invite you to take a look. If you see something you like, give us a call and we'll tell you all about it.

Welcome to our garden.

Bob

One of several bonsai display areas before we moved

Our original studio, classroom, and winter storage