Two bonsai trees worth thousands of dollars that require special care were stolen from a Washington state museum, the museum says
"It's a really defeating feeling because as the curator, ultimately, I am responsible for their physical care," museum curator Aarin Packard told CNN on Tuesday."It's very frustrating and really discouraging when you've invested years and not just my time, but all of the people who have tended to these plants cumulatively for 75 years."
"There are a lot of misperception about bonsai," museum executive director Kathy McCabe told CNN."Unless it's a tropical plant or tree, they're meant to be outside. They can have a turn in their health pretty quickly." The other plant is a Silverberry, which began training as a bonsai in 1946. It was created by a female bonsai artist named Kiyoko Hatanaka, a pioneer of her time.While the museum cares for about 150 trees, there are only 50 or 60 of them on display at a time, McCabe said. The museum wouldn't give an exact value of the two trees, but she said it was in the thousands.
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