Tired of waiting for years to develop the look of age in a new bonsai? Don’t miss the Conejo Valley Bonsai Society’s September meeting: It will be a demonstration of ways to create [...]
Our August meeting will be a workshop and swap meet. Have a look through your collection of trees, accessories, pots, etc. and see what you would like to part with or pick up from some-one else. [...]
Our July meeting will be a demonstration by Gary Nan-son. His topic will be power tools for shaping dead-wood of bonsai. He will talk about the best tools to use to carve a tree and how to use [...]
Our May 2017 meeting featured bonsai master Jim Bar-rett critiquing trees that members plan to show in our June 24 Summer Exhibition. Jim gave us guidance on how to make our trees show ready, [...]
Our April meeting was a demonstration by Bob Press-ler. Bob dealt with repotting—particularly repotting of difficult trees. (For the details see pages 4 – 6 of this newsletter.) Even though [...]
Our March meeting was a workshop—with a new twist: Ken Martin started the evening with a talk about fertilizers. This was the beginning of our plan to kick off workshops with short talks by [...]
We started 2017 with a demonstration by Roy Nagatoshi. He showed us his grafting technique along with some beautiful finished trees. (Details will appear next month.) The February 16th meeting [...]
2016 went out with a bang! Our annual holiday potluck party on December 15th was a big success and enjoyed by all. The food was delicious and the live piano music provided by Guy Ervin added a [...]
The end of 2016 is approaching much too quickly. I would like to thank everyone for making this a successful bonsai year! Our November program was a demonstration by Tom Vuong. It was a very good [...]