The Tree Circus

Wednesday, November 27, 2013
 



Axel Erlandson (December 15, 1884 – April 28, 1964) was a Swedish American farmer who shaped trees as a hobby, and opened a horticultural attraction in 1947 advertised as "See the World's Strangest Trees Here," and named "The Tree Circus". He was an unusual farmer who made trees grow to whatever design he desired. 


This bizarre variety of tree shapes were unrealistically woven to form miniature resemblances of statues. In 1985, after the Tree Circus went out of business the trees were bought by millionaire Michael Bonfante and were transplanted in his amusement park Gilroy Gardens in Gilroy, California.


The trees appeared in the column of Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not! twelve times.


 









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