The garden was designed by Luis Vallejo in collaboration with the architect Antón Dávila and opened its doors for the first time in 1995.

The tour through the exterior exhibition follows a pathway that leads to the various areas created by the concrete modules like a simple labyrinth that reveals its content step by step. Luis Vallejo’s bonsai collection expresses an understanding of nature, its rules, a personal manner of conceiving the art of Bonsai that is extended to their position in the exhibition – starting with the collocation of the tree, its background, the materials, the stones and sculptures that are placed next to it, all these elements create their own universe, allowing the visitor to contemplate, consider and feel nature. This place unites nature and art – a place that, apart from housing the best bonsai collection outside Japan, is unique.

Luis Vallejo’s private collection contains around 200 exemplars; autochthonous trees as well as Japanese trees. The trees have been cultivated or purchased by him personally over the past 30 years.