Over a period of a year the OBO committee in the Western Cape worked on finding a suitable venue to start a Western Cape bonsai collection. Th e collection already exist in the Stellenbosch botanical gardens but another was necessary more towards central Cape Town. The committee members Freddie Bisschoff, Willem Pretorius and Hennie Nel drove the project and after several meetings held with Kirstenbosch botanical gardens an agreement was reached where the local bonsai clubs together with Kirstenbosch will host a bonsai collection in the gardens. This was the opening of the bonsai collection. Kirstenbosch Gardens were represented by Adam Harrower and Ernst van Jaarsveld and the opening was done by John Winter, old curator of the gardens.
Kirstenbosch Botanical gardens bonsai collection opening
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Acacia galpinii - monkey thorn - 19 years - Stone lantern bonsai Nursery
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Acacia galpinii - monkey thorn - 19 years - Stone lantern bonsai Nursery
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Ernst van Jaarsveld, Willem Pretorius, Freddie Bisschoff, Adam Harrower, Hennie Nel and John Winter
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Ficus natalensis - Natal Fig - Gail and Lionel Theron - 50 years old
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Ficus natalensis - Natal Fig - Gail and Lionel Theron - 50 years old
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Ficus natalensis - Natal wild fig - 15 years - Stone lantern bonsai nursery
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Ficus natalensis - Natal Wild fig - 50 years - Gail and Lionel Theron
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Ficus natalensis - Natal Wild fig - 50 years - Gail and Lionel Theron
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Ficus natalensis - Natal wild fig - 60 years - Ernst van Jaarsveld - Kistenbosch botanical gardens
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Olea europaea subsp africana - Wild Olive - 80 years - Stone lantern bonsai nursery
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Olea europaea subsp africana - Wild olive - 100 years old - Oyama Bonsai Kai
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Team at Kirstenbosch who helped to do the last changes before the opening
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - Team at Kirstenbosch who helped to do the last changes before the opening
Kistenbosch bonsai collection - the team who put it all together and made it come true - Willem Pretorius, Freddie Bisschoff, Adam Harrower and Hennie Nel