Life Liberty and the pursuit of happiness in bonsai
- Jim VanLandingham
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Many of the bonsai on this web site are being offered from Jim's private collection for the first time. These are one-of-a-kind bonsai to be sold individually or in groups
Jim was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1925; in 1950 after reading about bonsai in garden magazines he ordered a book entitled "How to Grow Living Miniature Ming Trees at home" by John Kiktavi and four packets of seeds form National Nursery Supply in Inglewood, California. The seeds germinated but none of them ever became a bonsai but it did start a "love affair" with bonsai. At this time the only book available to Jim was a book by Norio Kobayshi published in 1950 by the Japan travel bureau and later a book by Yuji Yoshimura these were his teachers. Since then he has become an accomplished bonsai artist recognized around the world. In 1956 he and his wife Billie moved their family of four boys to Vero Beach, Florida, where he discovered tropical bonsai. Jim has studied under so