A bonanza of bonsai
Brussel Martin, owner of Brussel’s Bonsai in Olive Branch, has sold bonsai trees since the mid-1970s. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Right across the Tennessee-Mississippi state line from Collierville is the largest bonsai nursery in the entire United States.
According to its owner, anyway.
“We’re 10 times bigger than anybody else,” said Brussel Martin, owner of Brussel’s Bonsai in Olive Branch.
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Nick Lingerfelt
Nick Lingerfelt has written for Focus Mid-South Magazine, StyleBlueprint, Salon and At Home Memphis & Mid South. When he was a student at the University of Memphis, he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Helmsman, the school’s student newspaper.
Also while a student at the U of M, he received the Otis Sanford Outstanding Journalism Student award and the 2nd Place Marc Perrusquia Investigative Journalism Award for a story about the demographic makeup of the school’s sports teams.
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