Bonsai Is The Art Of Growing Dwarf Plants In
Dwarf treescame out in the 1930s not long after the japanese art of bonsai started drawing serious international attention.
Bonsai is the art of growing dwarf plants in. Although bonsai may seem like. Bonsai specimens are ordinary trees and shrubs not hereditary dwarfs that are dwarfed by a system of pruning roots and branches and training branches by tying with wire. Bonsai trees are dwarfed trees that are grown as a living work of art with a history in both china and japan. The japanese loanword bonsai has become an umbrella term in english attached to many.
And if you love nature and gardening and you don t have a. No bonsai is a sort of craft or living art form. They have been used as decoration and points of interest in japanese homes for centuries and in recent decades have become popular in western society. Bonsai the japanese art of growing miniature trees is a process that produces exceptional and one of a kind botanical specimens that evoke images of ancient forests.
Art of growing dwarf bonsai trees thursday november 6 2014 16 40. Or so shinobu nozaki titled his book the very first major publicationon the subject in english. Similar practices exist in other cultures including the chinese tradition of penzai or penjing from which the art originated and the miniature living landscapes of vietnamese hòn non bộ. But the art itself goes back as far as the sixth century when japanese embassy employees and students of buddhism returning from sojourns in china brought back all the latest things chinese including.
By lynet igadwah bonsai trees are revered like works of art. Techniques including shallow planting pruning defoliation grafting and root reduction along with wiring the trunks and branches into desired shapes all help to create the look of a mature tree in miniature. The art originated in china where perhaps over 1 000 years ago trees were cultivated in trays wooden containers and earthenware pots and trained in naturalistic shapes. We all know what to think of when we hear the term bonsai.
The japanese tradition dates back over a thousand years.