Welcome
Welcome to Pauline Muth's Bonsai Garden in West Charlton New York USA

Garden Way
Zone 4 provides the background conditions of bitter winters of ice and snow and short summers in which the gardens flourish.

Bridge
A walk over the dry stream bridge leads to an old Azalea

Spirit Path
Come into the bonsai garden

Korean Hornbeam
The late summer garden frames a collected Koran Hornbeam

August Garden
An exposed root pyracantha, Trident Maples over Rock, an a Bougainvilla stand in the August sun.

Gravel benches
Small bonsai and accessory plantings are kept in moist gravel trays to prevent the pots from overheating in the sun and drying out too quickly.

Bougainvilla
This split trunk Bougainvilla only lives in the garden from June through August and then must be greenhoused.

Bonsai Benches
An eastern exposure is ideal for the bonsai collection well protected from the wind.

Trident Maple over rock
This 10 cm Trident Maple is root over rock in an old Chinese pot.

Shohin Display
Trident Maple,Tridet Maple over rock,Needled Juniper,and Needlepoint Ivy with collect grass.

Needlepoint Ivy
This 15 cm Needlepoint Ivy was started from a cutting and is accompanied by a sedum.

Shohin Maple
This is a 12 cm Triden Maple.

Mame Maple
This is a 10 cm Trident Maple shown in a Michael Hagdorn pot.

Japanese Needled Juniper
This 14 cm tall Japanese Needled Juniper is displayed with an Acornus grass. The bonsai is in a Tokonomo pot.