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Bill Valavanis

Bill Valavanis

Bonsai master and educator; proprietor of International Bonsai Arboretum in Rochester, NY; inducted into the Bonsai Hall of Fame in 2017

Jun 3, 2026

speaker_0HOST
14:32
Right.
14:33
I don't care who owned it.
14:34
If you get one of Kimura's trees, if it's in the US, you can exhibit it.
14:39
And then that's what I want to do.
14:43
Ended up after, like, 18 years, it's good for the economy because people wanna show a tree in the national exhibition, so they gotta buy a better tree or they gotta study more, then you gotta buy a pot.
14:57
You gotta buy a table.
14:58
They gotta buy wire and tools.
speaker_0HOST
17:13
If you were to be able to hold a workshop tomorrow at an ABS convention, what would you want to have for your material, and h- what kind of students would you want to be there?

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