Lotus bonsai winning the gold award
Lotus flower bonsai provided by Hangzhou Botanical Garden (Hangzhou West Lake Academy of Landscape Science) won the gold award for bowl lotus cultivation technology, the bronze award for a new variety of large and medium-sized lotus flower, and the bronze award for a new variety of bowl lotus, in the 36th National Lotus Flowers Exhibition and New Lotus Varieties Competition closed not long ago.
All the works selected were elaborately cultivated new varieties. Grown in a vessel with an outer caliber of 13.5 cm, the bowl lotus that won the gold award has 11 blooming lotus flowers with an average flower diameter of about 6 cm. Featuring distinctive pink tips of petals and cup-shaped blossoms, the bonsai has excellent ornamental effect with perfect combination of the plant and the vessel.