Chrysanthemum, the official flower of Japan, represents longevity, power, dignity and nobility. Many exhibitions of chrysanthemum are held at the Japanese Gardens in Japan every year.
I've been to several gardens already this month for various exhibitions. Of course, the most impressive display is always Ozukuri （大作り）, literally means "make it big". For those who understand the growing techniques of chrysanthemum possibly could appreciate the art of chrysanthemum more.
Ozukuri is a highly complex technique to grow a single chrysanthemum to produces hundreds of simultaneous blossoms in a huge dome-shaped array. In order words, there are hundreds of branches grow from a single plant, and only one bud grows from each branch. Normally it will end up with around 200 to 300 blossoms.
This year, I saw some displays which were up to 590 blossoms. That was amazing that they would grow to blossom all at the same time!
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