Miniature Bonanza: Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection (Federal Way, WA)

Bonsai has always been a beautiful and mysterious art form to me. For over a thousand years, artists have practiced bonsai (penjing in Chinese; bunjae in Korean), the formidable feat of shaping source material into miniature trees through skill, patience and imagination. The Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection has a permanent exhibit, which is free-of-charge. I was mesmerized by specimen after astonishing specimen. It would be understatement to say that I was lucky to have seen the Kirishima Azalea in full bloom (see above). The collection is entirely owned and operated by Weyerhaeuser Company in Federal Way, Washington.

Jasmine Orange

Chinese Sweet Plum

Chinese Rock Penjing

Chinese Juniper on Sierra Juniper

Eastern White Cedar

Trident Maple

Japanese Beech

Japanese White Pine

Mountain Hemlock

Pear

Japanese White Pine

Chinese Hackberry

Japanese Maple

Japanese Black Pine

Japanese Red Pine

Mountain Hemlock

Kirishima azalea

Golden Atlas Cedar

Japanese Black Pine

Chinese Elm

San Jose Juniper

Japanese White Pine

Formosan Juniper

Olive Tree

Kishu Juniper on San Jose Juniper

Japanese Maple

Kinsai Azalea

Chinese Elm

Korean Yew

Silverberry

Japanese Maple

Blue Atlas Cedar

Cork Bark Japanese Black Pine

Sierra Juniper

Catlin Elm

San Jose Juniper

Bald Cypress

American (Eastern) Larch

Coast Redwood

Satsuki Azalea

Catlin Elm

Korean Yew

Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection
33663 Weyerhaeuser Way S
Federal Way, WA 98001
Coordinates of parking lot: 47.295625, -122.301468
253.924.5206