Erik Wigert – USA

Name: Erik Wigert

Location: Ft Myers, Florida

Availability: Available Year Round

Willingness to Travel: Will Travel Internationally

Programs Offered: Workshops/Demos/Lectures/Powerpoint Specializing in tropical bonsai material

Languages Spoken: English

Best way to Contact: wigertsbonsai [at] embarqmail [dot] com or 239-896-5549

Bio: Erik has a passion for teaching the art of bonsai whenever and wherever he can. He enjoys traveling and is available to travel internationally. He specializes in tropical plants but he is able to work with any material. He is available year-round for workshops and or demonstrations.
While Erik’s nursery has been established for 30 years he has concentrated more of himself and the nursery to bonsai cultivation over the past 7 years. The site is a full service bonsai nursery offering classes from beginner to advanced levels.

Accolades:
Best Tropical Bonsai at the 1st US National Bonsai Exhibit, Rochester, NY Oct 2008!

Trees displayed at Epcot center, Walt Disney World in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Second Place winner of Florida Bonsai Societies Scholarship competition in 2007.

Second place at Joshua Roth New Talent Competition with American Bonsai Society in 2006.

BSF Convention 2008 Demonstrator. Erik worked on a purple Bougainvillea and simultaneously shared the stage with one of BSF’s guests of honor, Gustavo Bures who worked on a Bucida Spinosa. See Events Photos link for photos.

Has traveled extensively in Florida and elsewhere teaching and leading bonsai workshops since 2003. In 2007 presented at Bonsai Tropical de Mexico. The exhibition was held held in the palacio Canton in Merida Yucatan, Mexico.

More about this Artist: www.wigertsbonsai.com

2 Experiences with Erik Wigert – USA

May 16, 2010 at 12:13 am
Ryan Bell

Erik is an extremely helpful and giving online seller. In my last purchase from Wigerts, I included an extra 40$ and told him to include whatever he thought looked promising, and he not only personally picked great material for my other purchases, he sent a great yamadori of native Florida material for the 40$!
Between my purchase and familiarity with his personal bonsai, I reccomend this young man for any tropical bonsai related occasion or purchase you may have! If my small club could, we’d have him this summer!

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June 30, 2011 at 4:08 am
Sam Ogranaja

I absolutely love Erik’s work and his vision. Just talking to the man for 10 minutes you can tell he lives and breathes bonsai. I’ve purchased 2 raintrees and 1 ficus nerifolia and have been extremely happy with the quality and prices. I also left 1 of my raintrees there for him to work on and babysit for a year and in 1 year he has taken this tree from a potensai to a bonsai with a very definitive flat-top and with an extremely promising future. He clearly knows what he’s doing and I can’t wait to see what this artist does in the future as I believe he has nowhere to go but up from here. Dealing with him and his other half Andrea, is always a pleasure. I highly recommend taking classes with this guy, visiting his nursery and buying some of his high quality stock. Speaking of stock, he has everything from zero to hero, for the beginner and the advanced, and for the broke or rich. If you need inspiration, go there and bring sunscreen so you can spend some time there and take it all in without getting sunburned too badly. I’m proud to own an Erik Wigert bonsai.

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