Wednesday, March 23, 2016

demonstration at Chicago Botanic Garden

Bonsai Master Walter Pall



Bonsai master Walter Pall will be at the Chicago Botanic Garden, performing a demonstration on the collection's oldest tree.
Bonsai master Walter Pall
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
6 – 9 p.m.
Plant Conservation Science Center
No registration required
Please join us for internationally-known bonsai master Walter Pall's demonstration on Wednesday, April 13, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Pall is known worldwide for the quality of his bonsai creations. He has received several dozen national and international awards for his beautiful, dramatic bonsai, including the most prestigious Crespi Cup Award of Italy for his well-known Rocky Mountain Juniper, and has come in among the top six finalists, every time he has entered the competition. He has also won second and third in the Gingko Cup Awards of the Belgium bonsai competition held every two years.
For many years Pall has been writing a lengthy and comprehensive encyclopedia on bonsai. He has also written more than 100 articles that have been published in Western bonsai magazines. Pall is a very good photographer and is able to provide many high quality pictures to illustrate his articles. He is also a very active, vocal participant on the internet in the bonsai scene.
Find additional information on Pall and pictures of his amazing trees and work on his website at www.walter-pall.de. Walter will working on Pinus flexilis, or Limber Pine, that was donated by Mr. Gerald Weiner in 2007. This tree was collected in Estes Park, Colorado at about 10,000 feet in the early 1980s by Harold Sasaki, and is estimated at being around 800 years old.