Apart from being an author and the owner of this collection of bonsais, Luis Vallejo is a landscape gardener with a long track record. Among his most famous national and international projects, are the gardens of the Hotel Royal Mansour in Marrakech, the University Hospital Río Hortega in Valladolid, the Banco Santander’s Financial Campus and the Castellana 81 tower in Madrid, as well as other private gardens and estates in Spain, Italy, Israel, Morocco and the Middle East.

In 2008 he received the Order of the Rising Sun conferred by the Emperor of Japan, the highest distinction the country’s government awards to foreign citizens for their dissemination and promotion of Japanese culture in other countries.