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We Have History Together

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…but that isn’t really what this is about…not our history, Joanne, but some links to gardenhistory girl’s posts and old pictures of Japanese dish gardens, and bonsai.
Enjoy. I immediately thought of you and your work with bonsai when I saw these.
Post one, ‘Japanese Dish Gardens’, and some nice images from somewhere in rare book image collections…in which I can easily lose myself for hours….

Love this stuff, so thanks, Arcady, we appreciate your blog.

About Ilona Erwin

I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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  1. johanna_lea says

    i learned to love bonsai watching
    my grandmother tend to her own
    collection. she had several “grove’
    specimens in which she created
    small landscape scenes. they would
    qualify as dish gardens, i believe.

    using the ga. clay i have made
    mudmen and women of my own style.
    dried, unfired, they slowly melt away adding clay’s minerals to
    the tree.
    often just a good looking rock
    or several [in proportion]
    can make a simple tree into mountain scenery.

    nice blog, thanks for posting it!