Heron Bonsai Peter Chan
We have a large selection of raw material that has been grown on the nursery.
Heron bonsai peter chan. Bonsai tree gift ideas for sale bonsai trees pots tools and books buy now from herons bonsai and receive uk next working day delivery for uk mainland. It also has a lot of basic information on the creation care and maintenance of bonsai. Available from 7 december. Peter and his wife first began sponsoring the wisley garden in 1997.
When did your love of bonsai start. His first book bonsai the art of growing and keeping miniature trees first published in 1985 is a world best seller and is still in print. Peter chan has come full circle and this is something a novice is not fully going to recognize. Peter is of chinese ethnicity born in india.
Herons bonsai are proud sponsors of the bonsai collection at the royal horticultural society garden in wisely. This together with his other seven books have been the inspiration and instigator of many a bonsai enthusiast s interest in the hobby. We have a wide variety of field grown and raw material that are a great. Herons bonsai based in newchapel in the uk and founded by dawn and peter chan in 1986 is britain s premier bonsai nursery.
The bonsai classes are either half day or full day and take place in our surrey nursery near london. Peter chan is one of the most respected bonsai authors in the world. He moved to the uk in 1963 and started experimenting with bonsai in 1967 when ceramics was his main hobby. This is peter s mini encyclopaedia of bonsai species both outdoors and indoors.
I started dablling in bonsai back in 1967 when i was quite involved with studio pottery which was my main hobby at the time. Workshop and class dates are regularly updated and run by peter chan bonsai master. Many of his books have been translated into most of the major european languages his first two books have in fact been translated into eight. The bonsai bible has been revamped and the bonsai beginner s bible by peter chan can now be purchased.
Here pedan interviews bonsai supplier and enthusiast peter chan of heron s bonsai and cultural centre and shares his photograph from 1984 when he met the queen.