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Hong Kong Flower Show 香港花卉展 (13-Mar-2009)
chin:
I went to the show today (Friday the 13th) with the intention to take lots of pictures of flowers. But I ended up taking lots of pictures of Pen Jing (盆景 Miniature Scene on a Pot, or commonly known in English by the Japanese name Bonsai.)
This was my first time ever visited the show, and I was not well prepared. To take good flower pictures, I probably should have had my tripod, and pick a more sunny day.
Many of the Pen Jing below are between 2 to 4 feet tall. About a handfull are about as tall as a grown up man. All the trees and plants are living plants, with many lived through the shaping process that took decades!
Click on the picture to see a large version.
chin:
Perhaps two feet talk, this Pen Jing could have taken 20+ years to shape.
chin:
Beauty in deformation?
The tree trunk is shaped by twisting and tighting and cutting.
chin:
Some of the beauties of Pen Jing is in the nice root formation. I was told that the root formation like this one is done by planting the tree in a deep pot, allowed the roots to go deep. Then move the tree to a shallow Pen Jing pot, and explose part of the root. The roots would be shaped using the same techniques that shape the trunk.
Even with the roots explosed like this, the tree will live on for decades. Pen Jing is a live time project.
chin:
I forgot how two tree trunks like these can grow side-by-side. They looked very nice anyway.
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