Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
For those of you in the Southern California market...
Was just at San Gabriel yesterday. Their bonsai product line continues to dwindle. I am aware that the break-in and theft a couple of years ago required them to build a security cage for their more expensive trees, but now they have moved all their bonsai material (including their cheapest stuff) into the cage area, effectively reducing the square footage they had dedicated to bonsai by 40%.
All of their bonsai starters are gone. The rows of nursery trays with the 3" pots of pines, junipers, elms - all gone. They used to have two full long tables of this material. One table they have converted to landscape azaleas. The other table they have removed completely and all that is left is an empty bed of gravel.
Very few pre-bonsai left. What was left was (in my opinion) ridiculously over-priced versus what they used to charge.
When we left the nursery, I went to point out the ancestral family home... and it is gone, the lot bulldozed flat. Even some of the back areas of the old greenhouses have been bulldozed. Has the nursery been sold to residential developers? Anyone close to the family know the scoop?
Was just at San Gabriel yesterday. Their bonsai product line continues to dwindle. I am aware that the break-in and theft a couple of years ago required them to build a security cage for their more expensive trees, but now they have moved all their bonsai material (including their cheapest stuff) into the cage area, effectively reducing the square footage they had dedicated to bonsai by 40%.
All of their bonsai starters are gone. The rows of nursery trays with the 3" pots of pines, junipers, elms - all gone. They used to have two full long tables of this material. One table they have converted to landscape azaleas. The other table they have removed completely and all that is left is an empty bed of gravel.
Very few pre-bonsai left. What was left was (in my opinion) ridiculously over-priced versus what they used to charge.
When we left the nursery, I went to point out the ancestral family home... and it is gone, the lot bulldozed flat. Even some of the back areas of the old greenhouses have been bulldozed. Has the nursery been sold to residential developers? Anyone close to the family know the scoop?