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artists from Japan, North America, Taiwan, Indone- An Emerging School of Bonsai
sia and Switzerland, Malaysia, to participate in their in the Philippines
conventions. It is not surprising then, that the level of After the award ceremonies at the exhibition, sev- Top left; Mother & child,
bonsai art in the Philippines is very high, and excel- eral members of the Philippine Bonsai Society Board Alfonso Apostol, Best Suiseki
lent, private collections of superior trees can be found of Directors accompanied the invited guests (Elias, in Show, BCI Excellence Award
in different parts of the country. Sulistyo, Yen, and Tang and their wives) on a flight Top right; The Falcon,
The Philippine has also produced several out- to northern city of Batac in Ilocos Norte region. Our Tony Gedang, BCI Excellence
Award
standing bonsai artists that are gaining recognition destination was the Mariano Marcos State University Bottom; Midnite Crawler,
far beyond the boundary of their country. Most no- were a new academic program in bonsai was estab- Erwin Paulos
table among these are Vic Ceballos, who conducted a lished in February, 2014. This new program has the
demonstration at the World Bonsai Friendship Fed- enthusiastic support of the Philippine Bonsai Soci-
eration Convention in Jintan, China in 2013. Another ety, and the dynamic university President, Miriam
celebrated Philippine bonsai artist is Bobby P. Gopiao, E. Pascua. Their joint vision is helping to develop a
a landscape designer, who has created some of the fin- small but growing bonsai businesses in the northern
est private gardens in the Philippines. Philippines.
The first day in Ilocos Norte was spent visiting sev-
eral small bonsai growers, stopping to see amazing
coastal rock formations, and the native habitat of their

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