Education in Japanĭuring the summer of 1970, encouraged by Lynn Perry, who helped make arrangements, Bill went to Japan to study bonsai with Kyuzo Murata at Kyuka-en Bonsai Garden in Omiya, Japan. While still at college his first mail order catalog was published in 1970 listing numerous bonsai starter stock and chrysanthemums for bonsai. He became an active member and Director of the Bonsai Society of Greater New York and attended classes with Yuji Yoshimura in Tarrytown, New York on weekends. The Valavanis family moved to Rochester, New York, in 1968, where he continued his single focused passion for bonsai.īill graduated from the State University of New York at Farmingdale, Long Island, in 1971, majoring in Ornamental Horticulture. Encouraged to sell and teach bonsai, his business “The House of Bonsai” was established. In 1967, at the age of sixteen, he began lecturing to garden clubs in the Charleston area. Bill explored the beautiful hillsides and came home with plants for bonsai and numerous cases of poison ivy. His learning continued when in 1966 the Valavanis family moved to Charleston, West Virginia. Later he learned that his “pine seedlings” were actually pieces of club moss. During an exploratory nature hike along the shore of Lake Michigan, he once collected hundreds of small “pine seedlings” and individually planted them.
He was hooked from the start and eagerly sought information and tried to shape plants into primitive bonsai. In the early 1960s, Bill was given a Japanese yew to “try for bonsai” at a local bonsai demonstration. Be the first to buy the newest in backyard living decor, plants, products, and furnishings.William Valavanis has been practicing the art of bonsai since a young boy. Gardenscape is the first sign of spring in Saskatoon and features a paradise bursting with vibrant blooms for the green-thumb shopper.
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