Nanyang Bonsai Garden

Nanyang Bonsai Garden

The Bonsai Garden was invested and built in 2009 by the Nanyang Bonsai Art Association. It now features 4,250 square meters of bonsai workshops, 850 indoor and outdoor bonsai display stands, 780 square meters of greenhouses, and has transplanted 530 trees of 35 varieties of ancient and famous trees. It also houses a collection of over 2,600 bonsai pieces and 28 garden ornaments. It is a bonsai cultural base centered around bonsai culture and integrating research, cultivation, collection, and sightseeing.

The bonsai works in the garden feature tree species that include both representative local varieties such as yellowhorn, privet, trident maple, elm, pomegranate, quince, crabapple, and crape myrtle, as well as introduced species such as ashleaf maple, black olive, and Huangshan pine. There are also evergreen pine and cypress bonsai works such as black pine, juniper, Chinese arborvitae, and true cedar, which have won major awards at various exhibitions in recent years.

Bonsai takes elements from nature—every plant, tree, mountain, and body of water—as creative material. By selecting one angle or aspect and adding the artist’s imagination, it uses the artistic technique of “compressing the grand into the miniature” to construct vivid and wonderful landscapes within small pots. This achieves the artistic effects of “seeing the big in the small” and “vast landscapes in a tiny space.” Precisely for this reason, bonsai is referred to as “poetry without words” and “painting in three dimensions.”