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25-Feb-2006
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Bonsai-a-thon at the Huntington
This weekend there is a show and sale at the Huntington Gardens, which is a really wonderful place. This show and sale supports the Golden State Bonsai Collection.
Just a reminder for those of you within driving distance of Los Angeles. Everyone says that the Bonsai-a-thon is a great place to buy stock and pots. San Diego Bonsai Club and San Pu Kai members will be taking a bus trip up on Sunday, leaving Balboa Park at 7:30 am and North County at 8 am. Hope to see some forum friends there!!! Joanie |
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26-Feb-2006
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Back from the Bonsai-a-thon and very very sad.
 The auction trees went for very little money. They should have been MUCH more. And I didn't have the funds to buy any of them. There was a terrific Acer P. with about a 2" trunk, beautifully shaped, REALLY nice. $65.00. Whine whine wimper whine. And the pyracantha that Kathy Benson brought and wired went for about $300 or so ... whine wimper wimper whine. Fabulous tree. A big old pine went for the most...high 300's I think. Should have been a lot more.Well, done is done.  I'll post pictures tomorrow of the workshops and the exhibit trees. And especially the Japanese garden. It was Girls Day so there were dolls and flowers in the Japanese house.Joanie |
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27-Feb-2006
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Demos
There were four demonstrators...
On the far left was Manny Martinez, doing a very large foemina juniper Next was Denny Roche, with a Ficus Salicifolia group planting Then Kathy Benson, with a pyracantha from her yard And on the far right, Marge Blasingame with two shohin junipers First, here are two pictures of Manny: He's hidden behind the foemina in the first picture, then the juniper only has three branches in the second picture.... |
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27-Feb-2006
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Denny Roche was working on a great ficus Salicifolia ( I think that was the cultivar... you know, the long-leafed kind) The one that is in the blue pot, on the floor, went into the auction.
Denny eventually "opened up" the group by cutting the roots with a chisel and pulling two of the end trees away from each other.... |
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27-Feb-2006
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Kathy Benson had the most wonderful pyracantha, that was a sprout from a larger one in her yard. The larger one went over in a windstorm, but this one was left. We all loved this tree. She did wiring primarily, very little trimming.
(And if my %&$$* car hadn't needed repair last week this tree WOULD have been coming home with me) |
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27-Feb-2006
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Marcus Juniel worked on a juniperus prostrata, that he bought from House of Bonsai a couple weeks ago. It really turned out nice, so sorry not to have gotten finished pictures.... but we wandered off.....
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27-Feb-2006
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The exhibit trees were of very high quality but I only took a couple of pictures... batteries ran low.
The first was the crowning glory, it's Jim Barrett's Ume. (prunus mume, Japanese flowering apricot) The second is a nice shohin clump of... elm?..... The third is a shohin black pine, really great.... |
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27-Feb-2006
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Here's where we spent the rest of our time... the Japanese Gardens. The "trees" holding up the arbor are sculpted of concrete (at the top of the slope) and the koi pond and bridge below.
It was Girls Day, so there were dolls and flowers in the traditional home. Here's a picture of Migoto and I standing in the gateway between the Gardens and the dry garden. |
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27-Feb-2006
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The collection is owned by the Golden State Bonsai Federation, which is the club of all of the California clubs. The curator is Ben Oki, and he has been in charge for many years.
Here, in no particular order, are the trees..... First, an azalea that is incredible. Wish it had been in bloom! Then, two olives... |
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