Mary Madison

Mary is a native of Homestead, Florida, and she has been very active in bonsai for the past thirty years. She was influenced and taught the art of bonsai by the late John Naka and by Ben Oki, to whom she is extremely grateful.

Mary has conducted workshops and demonstrations in the U. S. and the Caribbean, mostly with tropical trees as the subject. She also is an avid collector of buttonwoods and has earned the nickname "The Buttonwood Lady." She has been honored to have one of her trees selected for exhibit in the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum. Mary collects her material in the swamps of south Florida along with the company of snakes and alligators.

She has served as President of the Bonsai Society of Miami and on the Board of Directors of the Bonsai Societies of Florida, the American Bonsai Society and Bonsai Clubs International.