Bob Mahler started working with bonsai at the age of 15. He apprenticed under Chase Rosade of Rosade Bonsai Studios in New Hope, Pennsylvania (www.rosadebonsai.com) from 1985-1989. In 1989 he left for Japan to study privately with world renowned bonsai master Susumu Sudo in Tochigi-Ken Japan. He returned to the states in 1993. In 1994 he became the curator of bonsai at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn NY. He left Brooklyn in November 2005 to pursue a lifelong dream of working with individual collectors via lectures, classes, private collection maintenance, and tours abroad. Bob's personal favorites are Japanese White Pines, Satsuki Azaleas, and Japanese Flowering Apricots. Bob resides in the Philadelphia area with his wife Jess and their dogs.

Current Affiliations...
Bonsai Society of the Lehigh Valley
Delaware Valley Bonsai Study Group
Pennsylvania Bonsai Society
Friends of Bonsai of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden