Bob Mahler discovered his passion for bonsai at an early age. As a teen, he was fortunate enough to apprentice under the direction of Chase Rosade of Rosade Bonsai Studios in New Hope, Pennsylvania. From there he traveled to Tochigi-Ken Japan where he would spend the next 4 years under the exclusive direction of bonsai master Susumo Sudo. He returned to the States in 1993 and soon thereafter became the curator of bonsai at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn, New York. He left Brooklyn in 2005 to pursue a lifelong dream of working with individual collectors via lectures, classes, private collection maintenance, and tours abroad. Bob is fluent in Japanese. His personal favorites are Japanese White Pines, Satsuki Azaleas, and Japanese Flowering Apricots.

Pennsylvania Bonsai Society, Director                               Lehigh Valley Bonsai Society, Member