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AUGUST – This is an opportunity for our club to get some basic necessary supplies for our toolboxes, learn the recipes of making these products, and do it at a very low cost for all of us. We’re doing superthrive (goes a long way). This is used to grow and strengthen tree and roots. Tree wound paint for treating wounds after severe pruning. Lime-sulfur used to brush onto jins (deadwood), in order to produce a distinctive white color by bleaching the wood. Only the tree wound dressing needs more than (at most) a baby food jar’s capacity. Even for that, an 8 ounce jar will be sufficient. Travel size bottles or pill bottles are probably a good size to bring. Also, organization meeting for board and members to discuss future topics, classes, and trips.

SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER – Miniature Landscapes. We will make a Florida Landscape as a club and small individual landscapes on slabs/tras/rocks. Also, field trip and beginners class during these months.

NOVEMBER – Multi-Club Auction

DECEMBER – Christmas Party and election of officers for 2012.

SPECIAL THANKS to Jacqueline Conley for allowing us to use her place!

SAT. JULY 16^th, 10AM at above location

* BUY, SWAP, SELL, GIVE AWAY, SHOW OFF, ASK FOR HELP *

We’re asking everyone to bring trees, plant material, and related stuff (old books, etc.) that you’re not too attached to and also current projects to show other members what you are working on. Steve has a tray of trees he needs help to separate and clean up.  Dave will have a few small plants to give away.  The more of us involved, the better!

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Hello Potential Subscribers,

We’ve been getting a lot of fake subscribers to our blog, so if you’re a real person who is interested in bonsai, please submit a comment.  I will then be notified that there’s a comment for review and I’ll approve you post haste!  Otherwise, I’ll have to assume that you’re just trying to advertise your Viagra website and delete your account during my periodic housecleaning fits.  Sorry…some people ruin it for everyone else, I know…

Thanks,

Esther, Hukyu Blog Administrator

This month’s meeting offers a literati styling discussion, followed by a hands-on workshop.

Clif will bring material for purchase and anyone else is welcome to bring material to share, sell, trade or just to show.  Recommend using junipers you have or purchase with little to no taper  as material for this workshop.

Apologies to Dragon Garden Nursery in Hawaii for abusing their photo of a fine bonsai!

Friday, July 23
Saturday, July 24
Sunday, July 25

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Friday

1. Registration
2. Picking material; viewing Pasiminan
3. Well styled trees’ analysis session

Saturday

AM

1. A new way of propagating………….…Dave Collom from Palm Harbor, Florida
2. Varieties of crape myrtles…………….Clif Pottberg from Dade City, Florida
3. Other summer blooming material….…Marian Borchers from Dade City, Florida
4. How to prune crape myrtles and their dominance characteristics

PM

1. Developing nebari and fantastic roots 
2. Demo on very large crape myrtle..…..Steve Pilacik from North Carolina
3. Root cuttings and “frou?frou” bonsai; and demo thereof 
4. Inarching/grafting for change of flower form/size/habit

Late PM

Round table: Mike Rogers, Clif Pottberg, Steve Pilacik, and Marian Borchers

Combined, these four have over 160 years of bonsai experience, and will talk about the changes that have happened, the evolution of bonsai during their careers, and their relationships with John Naka, Yuji Yoshimura, Frank Okamura, Frank Nagata, Khan Komai and other greats, as they experienced them.

Sunday

AM

1. Extending the hardiness of crape myrtles
2. Dwarfing the blooms of crape myrtles; picking the right size flowers
3. Demo on a crape myrtle forest……………Mike Rogers from Deland Florida

PM

 1.    Workshops                                              Steve Pilacik and Mike Rogers

VENDORS

Additional vendors will be displaying their wares: fine pots, tools, plants including well styled Japanese black pines (Kuro matsu) brought by Steve Pilacik, other crape myrtles and azaleas, etc.

REGISTRATION

Friday and the tree analysis session is free; at-the-door registration cost for the weekend is $60.00, or $35.00 for either day.  Advance registration  (until July 17) for both days is only $50.00

To register or for questions, contact Clif Pottberg, Bonsai! at Pasiminan,
352-424-6000, or info@pasiminan.com

MATERIAL

Crape myrtles of various sizes have been chosen for workshop attendees, but many others are available in a huge range of sizes, up to 24″ bases and even larger root spreads

TO GET THERE

Bonsai! at Pasiminan is located about 35 miles north of Tampa on I-75 in the heart of the hill and lake country of Florida, and for the adventurous, we will supply maps of side trips you can make with great bonsai models along the way, as well as local attractions and destinations.

18700 Lake Iola Road, Dade City, FL 33523 

352-424-6000

Please let the webmaster (me) know what infomation you’d like to include on your tree; i.e., species, age of tree, years in training, your name, etc.

~Esther

Let’s have a field trip the 1st weekend in May to D&L Nursery and Mike Rogers’ nursery up around Ocala!  Contact Dave at president@hukyubonsai.com (that email forwards to Palmer & Dave) to let him know you’re interested. 

We need a rough headcount soon!

Bonsai Styling Demo at 2008 Tampa Natsumatsuri

Hukyu Bonsai Society will be making its presence known around Tampa these next few weekends.  This Saturday and Sunday, March 27 & 28, you can visit us at GreenFest 2010 in Plant Park on the campus of the University of Tampa.  We’ll have a bonsai display and pre-bonsai material for sale at great prices!

Then on the weekend of April 10 & 11, Hukyu will have a display at the University of South Florida Botanical Garden’s Spring Plant Festival!  From the Garden’s press release:  ”The Spring Plant Festival features a FESTIVAL Bonsai Display by the Hukyu Bonsai Society. The Bonsai Society members will be offering a basic bonsai care talk at 11:00 [on Saturday, April 10th] and will be on hand throughout the event to answer questions.”  The Spring Plant Festival is open from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Saturday, and 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Our regularly scheduled club meeting is on April 17 at 10 a.m. at the USF Botanical Gardens.

Then on Saturday, April 24, at 10 a.m., Hukyu Bonsai Society will hold an Introductory Bonsai Class at the Gardens.  For $65 you will receive basic tools, a tree, soil, pot, printed instructions and hands-on training from a bonsai expert!  Contact the USF Botanical Gardens Office at (813) 910-3274 to register.  This class is limited to 12 students.

~Esther