World Bonsai Day

World Bonsai Day weekend May 10 and 11 marks the official opening of the Arboretum’s Bonsai Exhibition Garden, with trees filling the benches for the first time since fall!

To mark the occasion, the Blue Ridge Bonsai Society will provide bonsai programming over the weekend, with club members working on their trees in the bonsai pavilion, giving Arboretum guests a chance to ask questions and to gain insight into how bonsai trees are styled and developed at earlier stages.

Arthur Joura, Bonsai Curator at The North Carolina Arboretum, will present a public bonsai demonstration in the Bonsai Exhibit Garden on Saturday, May 10 at 1 p.m.

The North Carolina Arboretum is a World Bonsai Friendship Federation Cooperation Center, one of only eight so designated bonsai gardens across the world which all celebrate World Bonsai Day each year by presenting bonsai experiences to the public.

The World Bonsai Day celebration is included with the Arboretum’s regular parking fee. Members get in free.