Mysuru: The District Horticulture Association together with the Horticulture Department is providing a day-long Ikebana training of flower arrangements at its premises adjacent to City Bus Stand here this morning.

More than 150 people, including housewives, girls and youths from across the city and surrounding places, who had registered themselves are undergoing training at the camp.

Prathiba Prabha Mandal and Dr. Yathindra, Assistant Professor at the Horticulture College in Yelwal here are the resource persons who are imparting training to the participants.

Senior Assistant Director of the Horticulture Department G.D. Dinesh Kumar, speaking to SOM said that Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement, which is a disciplined art form in which the arrangement is a living thing where nature and humanity are brought together.

He said that ikebana is creative expression within certain rules of construction. Its materials are living branches, leaves, grasses, and blossoms. Its heart is the beauty resulting from colour combinations, natural shapes and graceful lines.

He said that Ikebana is much more than mere floral decoration.

The training camp which began at about 10.30 am concludes today evening.