I went to the Guangzhou Penjing (Bonsai) Exhibition in Martyrs’ Park yesterday. With over 350 lingnan penjing (southern style Chinese bonsai), it’s the biggest lingnan penjing exhibition since the founding of the country. A truly A+ penjing should look just as exquisite when it is naked of leaves, as the times when it is blooming
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Besides the two bonsai trees, I have also got two small Crape Myrtle (aka Lagerstroemia indica , or 紫薇 in Chinese) cuttings from the mini bonsai class of Hong Kong Institute of Lingnan Penjing. In less than 1.5 months, both cuttings have grown some new branches ,and now are blooming beautifully with some bright pink
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For the past few weeks, I have been hanging out in the workshop of Hong Kong Institute of Lingnan Penjing quite often. Since it’s in the outskirt of Yuen Long, it takes me over an hour to get there. But because I learn so much and really enjoy my time there, I always like to
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Bonsai (or Penjing in Chinese) is the art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees and plants, recreating the beautiful scenery we find in nature in pots and trays. So even though this tabletop garden doesn’t look like anything close to those potted trees and landscapes that we usually call as bonsai, I really think that this
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I have joined the Hong Kong Institute of Lingnan Penjing recently (“Lingnan” means Southern style, and “Penjing” is bonsai in Chinese, and sorry guys, the Lingnan Penjing website is only in Chinese), and attended its mini bonsai class. The class was good. I have learned a lot and met many bonsai enthusiasts in the class.
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As ignorant as I may sound, before the classes, I had this impression that bonsai is like a gardening style that only grandfathers love. However, after learning more about bonsai art and meeting some bonsai enthusiasts, I was quite surprised to find that there are actually quite a big group of bonsai enthusiasts, both women
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Out of curiosity, I took a few bonsai classes a few weeks ago. Before I took these classes, I had had zero knowledge in bonsai, and I wasn’t at all interested in growing a bonsai. I was just curious in finding out what separates good bonsai tree from bad bonsai tree. Why do some bonsai
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