This event popularizes land art, one of the environmental trends in landscape design. Since the festival was first held Kyiv, it has been traveling through the cities of Ukraine, attracting designers, artists, florists, and all aficionados of the art of making objects from natural materials. The festival is an attempt to bring an uncommon, figurative, and bold vision into the field of landscape design.
Unusual figures and abstractions made from tree branches, leaves, moss, bark, hay, fruit, and flowers by talented people from almost all the regions of Ukraine were placed along the alleys and on the lawns of Taras Shevchenko Park. But what aroused the keenest interest at the 4th National Festival of Floristic Objects “Sun City” was a gigantic unfolded book made of the chrysanthemums that one of the sponsors, a Ternopil flower salon, had specially delivered from the Netherlands. It is written on the white pages: “Congratulations, dear teachers.” Ternopil residents presented this record-breaking gift to educationists to mark their occupational holiday. The unusual floral book was made by students of the Ternopil Tourism and Services Higher School. According to Lana Vetrova, in charge of Ukraine’s National Register of Records, 7,500 chrysanthemums were used for this purpose.
The two-day festival also included free master classes in making festive candles, postcards, and corn-leaf toys, as well as a bubble extravaganza and vegetable carving.
