The art of bonsai is intensely laborious…
But the result can be satisfyingly long-lived. A properly maintained bonsai, just like its full-sized counterpart tree, may live for many decades…
Unless your discipline is Chrysanthemum Bonsai.
Consider the amazing amount of life imbued in this tree. It’s no mere planter! Each individual blossom is growing out of the wood…
And try counting the flowers. Did you stop at a hundred? I have seen beautiful bonsais boasting a dozen mums, but here you have hundreds upon hundreds, possibly half a thousand or more…
With each tiny, lavender-gold blossom as intricately glorious as its full-size counterpart…
And all for a fleeting flash of wonder
I don’t know exactly how long this amazing little tree will live, but typically Chrysanthemum Bonsai die after just two or three years. Perhaps a tenth the life of fruit trees grown by Bonsai masters.
So do count the blossoms. Contemplate the wisdom and concentration of the gardener….
And bask in the glory of a tree that might truly be termed a forest. Perhaps half a thousand or more Chrysanthemums cascading from its beautiful branches…
Each, a masterpiece in miniature.
