National Botanic Garden of Wales is located in the rural area in South Wales, which is about an hour and a half train ride heading West from London. Mr. Michael Nixon, an art adviser, expressed an interest in joining the project after seeing the Kaki Tree Project exhibit at Venice Biennial held in1999.
On the day of tree planting ceremony, comings and goings of people were strictly controlled by the garden due to epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease and the restaurant was also closed. So the people and children who were invited to the ceremony could not enter the garden. We presented the persimmon tree and conducted a temporary tree planting ceremony.
The garden has been taking a good care of the tree.
