A group of 15 people learned the art of cultivating trees using bonsai techniques, in a workshop that took place last Sunday at the Nature Interpretation Center at Sítio das Fontes, in Estômbar.
The initiative taught to take «the first steps in the complex universe of Bonsai cultivation techniques», according to Câmara de Lagoa, which organized the workshop, in partnership with Clube Bonsai do Algarve.
The tree species chosen as a working tool in the “Bonsai Workshop with Mediterranean Species” was the wild apple tree.
«A set of Bonsai by the members of the Club, exhibited at the Nature Interpretation Center at Sítio das Fontes, served to explain the origins and the main techniques involved in obtaining true living works of art, many of them from species of our native flora» , revealed the municipality, in a press release.
Although the technique of creating these “mini” trees has its origins in Japan, the members of the Algarve club insist on using “indigenous species, adapted to our climate, soil and landscape conditions”.
The use of these “Algarvian” species, «as well as those that identify with our culture, for ornamental and landscape purposes, can help to explain who we are, even if through an art that comes to us from the East».
In addition to benefiting from teachings that will allow them to take the first steps in the cultivation of bonsai, the participants «brought home a wild apple tree already “worked” during the workshop, and a “bonsai kit” which, with technique, skill, patience and time , it will certainly become a true Bonsai».
This was the second of two workshops that, in 2015, started a cycle dedicated to Mediterranean plants. The first of the two workshops in 2016 is expected to be dedicated to the vine, a determinant species in the construction of agricultural landscapes across the Mediterranean basin.
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