BAGUIO FLOWER FESTIVAL: BONSAI CUP

  

For bonsai lovers, the Bonsai Cup is the chance for them to showcase their passion. Bonsai Cup is an exhibition held at the Rose Garden this Festival season in Baguio city. A silent exhibit but elegant and still wonderful for those who appreciates nature.

Growing bonsai (actually stunting the growth of the bonsai) is a hobby which needs skills in art and appreciation and tons of patience. The best thing is pruning the branches into a shape of a dwarf tree where one can clip the tree into one’s imagination.

Tables have been placed in the right side of the Rose Garden slopes for the event. Different bonsai trees with their elegant-looking pots are on exhibit. All look like small trees literally with other additions to the plant like rocks or ceramic figures. Small trunks made to look like worn out and old, eaves made to be smaller than normal - the attributes of dwarf trees.

For those who appreciate growing these small trees, the Bonsai Cup is a good medium to learn more about how bonsai should be grown and directed. The art is simple but exquisite. Those who would also like to venture on this hobby can take this chance to learn before buying their own masterpiece.