Bonsai @ Kew Gardens

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Hello,

I recently visited Kew, Royal Botanical gardens in the UK, Richmond. Website.
They had a very small greenhouse with Bonsai in, from around the world, so I of course took many pictures and 2 videos (for a bit more of a 3D look). These were very excellent trees, in my opinion.

There's a Flickr album of all Bonsai pics from Kew, as to not fill this thread with too many pics:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4LmdVg

Most of the trees have their own board with info on its history, for example the Acer Palmatum is from the Toju-en nursery in Japan, and has been growing in a pot for over 80 years.

There are a good many pics, you are better off looking at the album if interested but I wanted to put some pics in here.


I took a many 100s of pics whilst there at the very old, mature trees of Kew, of their branch structures and trunks. They had redwood forests, larch forests, A LOT of Oaks, Cedars, Cypress, Maples, Junipers and a lot of very tall Pines with great bark. Some of the bark on these trees were as a thick as a standard Elm bonsai trunk...
This is a link to the whole collection (multiple albums), feel free to look through or save perhaps for future designs or inspiration:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150283904@N08/collections/72157686669061586/

Here's some pics:

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Here are 2 short videos of looking at the same trees, but in much better detail:

Part 1:

(Anyone else notice or love the silky smooth 60fps video?)

Part 2:
 
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