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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: May-2005
Country: The Netherlands
Posts: 965
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visit to Teunis jan Klein's garden
Today i finaly had a new change to visit Teunis jan en Branca Klein. Teunis jan is one of my oldes Dutch bonsai friends, and i am a big fan of his work, and i might ad, a bid jealous of what he has accomplished rebuilding his house in some kind of bonsai heaven. Teunis jan is the proud winner of this years prestiges Ginkgo award with the beautiful acer you can see on the first picture, he worked on this bonsai for 6 years now. It was shown for the first time at the WBC 2002 in Munich, the second time it won the Ginkgo! I shot this photo in his new large club space the build next to his house together with a small bonsai shop, where his pupils have all the room to work and buy all the things they need fore their work!
Next to this new building he has created a nice bonsai garden, where you walk trough to reach his large glass house where his bonsai stay during the winter.
It's is not all finished as of yet, but it allready looks pretty great, he is even building a realy large koi pond!
I like to post some shots of his bonsai, the photos are not to good, but it was terrible weather today with verry bad light! I hope you like them to, because i have the upmost respect for this two people who put every penny they urn in to this bonsai dream they have, i wish them all the luck for when it is al finished!
P.S,
I immediately asked him to join the Bonsai Talk Forum, so i hope he will post many of threads!
Enjoy the photo's
Regards,
Hans van Meer.
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