SCOTTISH BONSAI COLLECTION TRUST - The Scottish Bonsai Collection Trust is based around the ‘Graham Trees’ as they are known. Bill Graham, of Maybole in Ayrshire was a master butcher, and when he retired he concentrated on creating and collecting bonsai. Over nearly thirty years, he developed his knowledge and his collection of 300 trees.

When Bill died in 1983, his widow donated the trees to the Local Authority Parks Department of Kyle and Carrick so that some of them at least, could continue to be displayed at their Annual Flower Show. Eventually, Patrick Gibb, then principal organiser of the Show, passed the Graham Trees to the Scottish Bonsai Association in November 1984. A group of members set up the first ever National Collection of Bonsai in Britain. Mrs Graham then legally gifted the trees to the Scottish Bonsai Association (SBA).

The collection is located at BINNY PLANTS, Binny Estate, Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, Scotland, EH52 6NL and will be relocated to the Japanese Garden at Cowden in Spring 2026.