posted Apr 21, 2010 3:18 PM by Lonnie Bowling
Remember the setup is from 8-1pm on Saturday. The show is from 10-4pm on Sunday. The Garden Dedication is from 11-11:30am, the Demo is from 12:30-3:30pm. Remember to bring stuff for the outside sales area and silent auction. Bring food food for the pot-luck snacking area!
We are going to have a great show!! |
posted Mar 31, 2010 7:40 PM by Lonnie Bowling
Make sure you bring in your trees to the two meetings this month to get them ready for the show. I need to make a list of all the trees so if you can't bring them in please let me know.
Saturday 4/24 from 8:00 to 1:00 is the setup, please be there to help we have a lot of work to do.
Sunday 4/25 is the show, it starts at 10:00 to 4:00 for the public, club member please be there by 9:00 am.
Any questions, please email me at lonniebowling@napabonsai.org. |
posted Nov 14, 2009 7:01 PM by Lonnie Bowling
Take some time to look at our very exciting calendar for 2010. We are focusing on the fundamentals and do more hands-on events. Plan on getting a lot of tree work done on most Mondays!! |
posted Sep 25, 2009 4:56 PM by Lonnie Bowling
From Wikipedia: A white elephant is a valuable possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness.So we do the "Green" Elephant sale every year, plan on bring your trees and bonsai related stuff that you don't want and it will be sold! Plan on bring some money for some great deals!! This is the one night you don't want to miss. Starts at 7:15 sharp, be early if you are selling to allow time for setup. |
posted Jun 13, 2009 9:40 PM by Lonnie Bowling
Back by popular demand, we are set for our summer expedition north. We won't be going quite as far as the migratory birds, but almost. Here are the details:
Event Coordinator: Lonnie
Date: Saturday, July 18th
Nurseries Visiting: Deer Meadow Bonsai, Lone Pine Gardens, and Sumigawa Growing Grounds
This will be an all day outing, bring plenty of water and money! We will meet at the senior center parking lot at 8:30 and depart at 8:45 sharp. If you are late, you will have to make your way to the first stop on your own.
First we will be driving to Jim Gremel's Deer Meadow Bonsai Nursery. This is a big treat for us; Jim's bonsai material is top of the line and he will have plenty of wire and soil. Arrival will be at 10:00 and we'll eat lunch at the nursery (pizza from the Union Hotel for about $10 per person). With full bellies and new energy, we will say good-by to Jim (and some of our cash) and head to Lone Pine Gardens for more shopping. We should be arriving around 1:00pm. Janet and Ian are always super friendly and have a full range of trees and pots to select from. I'm sure everyone will find something they "need." Finally, we will be leaving about 2:30 to get to Sumigawa Nursery by 3:00. At Sumigawa we will meet up with Dan and then drive to their growing grounds about a mile away from the nursery. Here we will find several acres of per bonsai material at great prices. It is easy to get lost here, I'm not kidding. We will leave about 4:00 and be back to the senior center by 5:00. Whew, what a day!
We will be car pooling to try and limit the number of vehicles and usually someone will have a truck to haul our loot that won't fit in our cars. Last time we came back fully loaded.
There will be a sign up sheet at the meetings. You can also contact me at lonniebowling@napabonsai.org if you want to sign up or have questions.
There should be something here for everyone, so don't miss this if you can help it. I hope to see a great turn out!
Lonnie |
posted May 5, 2009 1:21 PM by Lonnie Bowling
[
updated May 5, 2009 1:32 PM
]
Jean Kahn and John Holt will be performing a club demo and clinic on bonsai Saturday 5/16 from 10am-3pm. Please stop by to support the effort if you can! |
posted Apr 28, 2009 9:00 PM by Lonnie Bowling
Hello Club Members,
Look in the newsletter area for another fantastic edition by Richard Lenson. Rich is doing a great job as our editor and this is some of his best work. You'll want to be sure to look at the photo of Jim Gremel on the last page. Did he leave Napa alive on Sunday!?
Good Growing!
|
posted Mar 6, 2009 5:02 PM by Lonnie Bowling
[
updated Mar 6, 2009 5:07 PM
]
Don't miss all the great information in our latest Newsletter. Check it out: March Newsletter |
posted Feb 26, 2009 7:52 PM by Lonnie Bowling
[
updated Apr 13, 2009 7:24 PM
]
Hi Fellow Club Member, Our next meeting will be with John
Thompson, who will give us some guidance on how to ready a tree for
show, here is a message from John that he wanted me to send out to
everyone:
I’m looking forward to the show prep on April 20th.
A few things to make it work. In your news letter or by email, could
you ask members to go out now and collect as much moss as they can for
the show, put it in trays, and keep it wet. Try to find as much silver sun
moss as they can, as it gives off a silver blue sheen that compliments
trees well. Other types will do and are complimentary to the trees.
If they have fine, show dressing soils, please bring those. Bonsai
Tools including sheers, tampers, chopsticks, tweezers to help prepare
the soil surface and moss and, of course, the trees they want to show.
I’ll take a tree from the audience and go through this process then
we’ll turn them loose and I will come around and help them with show
prepping their trees. They will be cleaning their pots, removing soil
from the surface so prepare for a little mess. Everyone should have a
great time.
JT |
posted Feb 26, 2009 7:51 PM by Richard Lenson
[
updated Feb 26, 2009 7:54 PM
]
Monday, March 16: Peter Tea - Talking About Olives: This meeting, I will be talking about Olives. At the meeting I will hand out a more detailed description of how they grow, and when to do different techniques. Below is a few key points I will be talking about: -Growth habits, -Repotting (how much roots to take off), -Wiring (aluminum or copper?), -Fertilizing -Qualities to look for in a tree (raw or refined) See you all at the meeting -–Peter Tea |
|
