We went to Gardening Scotland way back in June, at Ingliston in Edinburgh. I suppose it’s the closest we get to a Chelsea Flower Show in Scotland but it’s really nothing like that. No huge amounts of money are thrown at it by sponsors for the creation of sumptuous gardens. In fact I think that it is a real shame that the big Edinburgh institutions such as Standard Life don’t have a show garden. It’s all very teeny and the few wee show gardens are mainly by charities, still interesting though and I’ll do another post about those ones. I was really taken with the bonsai stands though and there were some Japanese tourists there who were obviously impressed too. These are just a few of my favourites.
Just about anything in miniature is so cute, even humans I suppose, and I can quite see why some people get quite obsessed with bonsai.
You have to be patient though, some of these trees are 50 years old or more.
There were some chaps from the Scottish Bonsai Association showing how it was done. I’ve always felt quite squeamish about the thought of wiring up trees but I have to admit that the results are stunning.
