What is Pinoy Bonsai?
Filipinos are known for their innate love of nature especially with plants. It is a rare circumstance that you see a house without a garden in the Philippines. Pinoys, as collective Filipinos are called, like to grow plants for visual pleasure to get rid of stress. They grow a wide variety of plants like orchids (I remember when every house on the block has their orchids because of envious reasons - because the neighbor has it, so it must be a must have in the yard), cactus, kalatsutsi and many more.
Filipinos are known for their innate love of nature especially with plants. It is a rare circumstance that you see a house without a garden in the Philippines. Pinoys, as collective Filipinos are called, like to grow plants for visual pleasure to get rid of stress. They grow a wide variety of plants like orchids (I remember when every house on the block has their orchids because of envious reasons - because the neighbor has it, so it must be a must have in the yard), cactus, kalatsutsi and many more.
Only this past few years of the last decade that we saw the interest of the Pinoys with Bonsai, from the Japanese word bon – which means small pot and sai – which means trimmings or little plant. Unfortunately the art of bonsai did not come originally from the land of the rising sun but from the Chinese people.
Although
the process of making bonsai by the majority
of Pinoys isn’t exactly the equivalent as the methods used by the Japanese, the
interest and love for the art is same. To those who are members of bonsai
societies in the Philippines, they follow the Japanese traditions but for those
who are unfamiliar with the art, all small, dwarfed, miniature and little
plants are considered bonsai.
Every bonsai that will be posted in this blog site has its unique story. Most are not for sale, but if get lucky, some could be.
Every bonsai that will be posted in this blog site has its unique story. Most are not for sale, but if get lucky, some could be.