Orlando Bonsai » garden https://www.orlandobonsai.com The purpose of this site is to share and enjoy the art, history and horticulture of bonsai and to provide current bonsai news and information. Sun, 19 Sep 2021 06:47:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 18th Epcot Flower and Garden Festival https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1874 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1874#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:43:56 +0000 http://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1874 Well all the planning, e-mails, phone calls and worrying are over and the trees are on displayed at the 18th annual International Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot (located at Walt Disney World Orlando Florida). This the the 10th year I have been involved with the committee and 4th year as chairman. To say I love doing this is an understantment. It is so much work but so worth it.

This year’s display has got to be one of my all time favorite displays. Amazing trees and wonderful exhibitors. I put together a little video and added som photos to see near the end of this post. Enjoy (and don’t forget to subscribe to my channel)

 

Paul Pikel’s Ficus Nerafolia – Clump Style


Ed Trout’s Lantana Cascade


Jarbas Godoy’s Ficus on Slab

Eric Wigert’s Green Island Ficus 

Tony Stewart’s Bougavillea


]]> https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?feed=rss2&p=1874 0 My moment of Zen https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=747 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=747#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:00:04 +0000 http://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=747 I was contacted recently by someone looking for help to revive and redesign their Zen garden. They had lost the person that had done it before me and had difficulties finding someone to care for the garden. I must admit I was very excited about the idea, and knew that this was something that I had wanted to do for some time. The following pictures are of the garden the first day I saw it.

As you can see the garden was very cluttered and didn’t offer the relaxing feeling of a real Zen garden.


The owner and I agreed that the previous design included too many features and elements. It just has too much going on. I think the most important aspect of the Zen garden is the rakes gravel. With the current design you barely noted the sand.

From this angle you can see how jagged the outside edges of the gravel flowed. It wasn’t smooth and soothing, but instead had hard drastic lines. I could see I would have a lot to do.


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