Heathcote Botanical Gardens is located in the Treasure Coast section of Florida.
The James J. Smith Bonsia Gallery is located there. This is the largest collection of tropical bonsai in the United States.
I marveled at the craftsmanship and time it must have taken to create such specimen. I took a photo of the information on Bonsai. Click on it to enlarge it, if you are interested in reading it.
Here are just a few of the dozens of tiny trees.
I especially loved the trees in bloom. They were like magical , trees from a fairyland.
This Surinam Cherry even had fruit on it. It was my favorite.
I wish I were tiny and cute.
floweralley 
Very cool, what a fun post! Coincidentally my daughter Anjali just bought a little bonsai gingko tree to try her hand at this craft. There were a few more established bonsai trees at our nursery that looked sooo cool – one was an oak tree I think that was 300 – the miniature trunk was 4 inches wide! I am guessing that must be at least 30 years old!
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I would love to have several.
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They are fascinating, aren’t they? But as a human being, ‘tiny and cute’ has its limitations!
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I wouldn’t know. I am tall and not small. I guess the grass is always greener where one is NOT. I am healthy, so I am fortunate.
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I think it’s cool how bonsai look ancient but miniaturized. I guess I didn’t realize they could bloom and develop fruit, so that’s neat. On the down side, I keep being reminded of foot-binding. But I guess the little trees don’t suffer…
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They are trained and trimmed.
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Root trimmed. Foot binding does have the same implications!!!
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Ouch. If plants could talk…scream.
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Your line of thinking reminds me of the poem Identity by Julia Noboa Polanco. It starts with ” Let them be as flowers, always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of dirt.”
It ends with, “I’d rather be a tall ugly weed.”
I think women especially feel “trained” by some expectations put on them.
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It’s both an art form and a style of gardening.
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Ces bonsaïs sont magnifiques surtout ceux en fleurs! Merci pour les photos de ce joli jardin botanique.
Belle journée.
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Magnifique is right! Going there tomorrow.
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I have to admit that while I admire the skill needed to bonsai a tree, I feel it looks like torture! I had to smile at the ‘black’ olive. All olives are black when they’re ripe!
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