Bonsai News: April 2005

30 April 2005

Home Briefs - 4/30/05

BONSAI SHOW: San Pu Kai Bonsai will hold its annual Bonsai Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 15 at the Japanese Cultural Center, 150 Cedar Road, Vista. A display of mature potted bonsai specimens, shown in many traditional styles, will highlight the event. A sales bazaar of bonsai trees and related plant material will be available. Admission is free.

 

 

28 April 2005

Garden Calendar

SAT Bonsai Northwest: 5021 S. 144th St., Tukwila; 206-242-8244.

Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m. -- Jin and Shari Workshop: Bring in your larger bonsai to add interest and the appearance of age. The branch or trunk you would like to carve must be at least 1 inch in diameter. $24.

May 7 and June 4, 1:30-3:30 p.m. -- Re-styling Workshop: Get that wild and woolly bonsai back into shape and keep it that way. Workshop covers both pruning and wiring. $20; tools can be provided.

ONGOING Soos Creek Gardens: After 25 years of business Soos Creek Gardens is closing. All water plants, trees, shrubs and perennials are priced to sell as well as bamboo stalks, bonsai pots and large decorative containers. There's also a dig it yourself area featuring bamboo and water plants (bring a shovel). Through May 31, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays; 12602 S.E. Petrovitsky Road, Renton; 425-226-9308.

 

 

Perfectly-formed: Louis Hawksby with a selection of his bonsai trees at Harrogate's Spring Flower Show.         Picture: Simon Hulme.
Perfectly-formed: Louis Hawksby
with a selection of his bonsai trees at
Harrogate's Spring Flower Show.

WHY SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL FOR EXPERT GROWER

THINK bonsai, think Japan – or not, according to Yorkshire expert Louis Hawksby, who says British growers can equal the best from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Brian Dooks
Mr Hawksby, whose North of England Bonsai exhibits have won the Best in Show award at Harrogate's Spring Flower Show for two out of the past three years, was speaking after completing his display for this year's event which starts today.
Twelve trees chosen from his nursery near York include a magnificent pine. Mr Hawksby said proudly: "Although it is a bonsai, it took three men to lift it on to the stand."
Mr Hawksby, who once won 14 Best in Show awards in one year, has been experimenting with miniature gardens since he was seven, encouraged by his mother Alice, whose interests included bonsai.
But a recent visit to the Kokafou Bonsai Show in Tokyo was his first visit to Japan, and he was disappointed. "I'm convinced our bonsai are as good if not better," he said.
"Bonsai is very popular out there, but it is very expensive indeed – unbelievably so. We went to a bonsai market outside the show and they were selling at £30,000 to £40,000 each
"We never saw a tree on the market under £250 and they were only six inches high. I am selling some trees for £5 and even decent-sized ones for £25. I know I am from Yorkshire but the Japanese prices were ridiculous."
Although they live only four miles away at Knaresborough, Barbara and Ivor Fox are exhibiting their miniature bulbs at the Spring Show for the first time – having just won four Firsts at the Royal Horticultural Society Show at Wisley.
Mr Fox, a semi-retired advisor to the Treasury, is exhibiting some bulbs so rare that only 100 of certain species are known to be in existence. "A lot are species that have not been collected recently from the wild because they are from Iraq and Iran originally."
Among his favourites are t.accummata, which he describes as "probably the most spectacular tulip". Mr Fox and his wife, who trade as Miniature Bulbs UK and grow 120 varieties, exhibit in spring and send out 30,000 bulbs to customers each September.
One of the best locations in the main flower hall under the central glazed area has benefited Bloms Bulbs, of Bedfordshire, whose tulips, including the deep red Darwin hybrid Come Back, were reaching up to yesterday's sun. The family business has previously claimed three Premier Awards at Harrogate.
The Spring Flower Show, organised by the North of England Horticultural Society at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, starts today and continues until Sunday. Gates open at 9.30am.

 

 

Grampian Bonsai Society Event

28 April 2005 10:06

Grampian Bonsai Society is holding an open meeting and workshop in The David Welch Winter Gardens this weekend.
The subject is "Styling your Bonsai" and the event is open to anyone with an interest in bonsai trees.
Members of the public are invited to bring along their own trees to learn how to create a bonsai.
The event runs from 10.30am to 4pm on Sunday (May 1).

 

 

Bonsai Show In Watsonville Desplays Ancient Art

If you haven’t heard of bonsai yet, it may be time to get with the program. With a demonstration by Tom Ogura from Satsuma Bonsai Club Monterey, the 32nd annual Bonsai Exhibition at Watsonville Buddhist Temple on Sunday features door prizes, plant and pot sales, demonstration tree raffles and refreshments.
The Watsonville Bonsai Club is one of many clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area. In operation since 1963, the Watsonville Bonsai Club currently has 33 members.
"We still have two of the original members," said Vice President Don White.
According to White, collectors own bonsai trees up to 800 years old.
"I have a juniper that is 125 years old," he said. "You can bonsai any plant that you want."
Most of the clubs members, however, are beginners, said White.
"A couple of young kids really have taken an interest," he said.
White has been cultivating bonsai for over 30 years. He became interested in the art when he was stationed in Korea.
"I saw large trees in small pots, and I was like, what in the world is that?" he said. "When I came home I by chance met an older Japanese man who taught me more."
Though bonsai trees have recently become popular in the U.S., they have a long history in Asia. References to the tiny trees go back as early as China’s Tang Dynasty (618-907), when people cultivated small trees they called Penjing, which literally translates to "tray scenery." Two wall paintings in Prince Zang Huai’s tomb from 706 A.D. show servants carrying plants similar to bonsai.
"The Chinese were the first to develop the idea, but they didn’t groom the trees as much as the Japanese. The Japanese liked to make them in what we call classical standards," said White.
Japan adopted the art of growing miniature trees during the 14th century, naming it bonsai. By the 1600s, Japanese individuals from all classes enjoyed bonsai and many participated in bonsai competitions.
Bonzai gained popularity in Europe at Paris and London exhibitions during the 19th century and Japanese nurseries opened in the U.S.
Today, bonsai is a globe-wide obsession, with clubs dedicated to the art across the U.S. and Europe.
According to White, creating bonsai is not difficult — it’s just a lot of work.
"It’s hard to cut the foliage and roots," he said.
The key to growing bonsai is proportion. Every part of the tree — the needles, trunk, branches and container — must harmonize perfectly. Usually started from seeds or cuttings, the trees mature in about five years, growing to one of the categorized sizes: miniature, small, medium or average.
Growers perfect the size and shape of their trees by carefully pruning their branches and trunks. Because they require a great deal of care, bonsai is a serious commitment.
Bonsai trees are kept in small containers so their soil dries up quickly and must be watered often. Watering them too much, however, can lead to flooding and cause roots to rot. Soil should be kept damp, but not saturated.
According to White, the most common mistake in caring for bonsai is growing them indoors. Though some vendors sell the trees as indoor plants, the trees need natural sunlight to stay alive.
Quality of soil is also a very important aspect of bonsai care. More porous than potting soil, bonsai soil contains less fertilizer than other varieties geared to grow larger plants.
"The water has to be able to go through soil," he said. "Even on a foggy day you have to go out and look because they can dry out."

If You Go

WHAT: Bonsai Exhibition.

WHEN: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

WHERE: 423 Bridge St., Watsonville.

COST: Amission is free but donations are accepted.

DETAILS: 724-7860.

 

 

27 April 2005

How's Your Highway Code?

A most peculiar tree

A bonsai, for the benefit of those who are strangers to specialized gardening, is a dwarf ornamental tree or shrub, grown in a small shallow pot by selective pruning. The art of growing bonsai was discovered and perfected in Japan. A true grower would choose a suitable tree at seedling stage and undertake the delicate process of stunting it to the desired size, which ideally would not be more than about twelve inches tall, if tall is the word. For anyone who is too lazy to prune his own trees, seeds can be bought at specialized stores or garden centres.
The process of germinating the seed of a bonsai tree is long and arduous. The specially prepared soil should include some chicken manure, the seeds should be planted in a shallow tray, and the tray covered with brown paper to keep out the light. The whole thing should then be placed in a refrigerator, where it must remain for three months. (That last bit makes sense; any living thing, whether animal or vegetable, that is shut in a refrigerator for three months is bound to come out of it stunted.)
Some years ago, a friend who had just returned from a trip abroad presented me with a packet of mixed bonsai seeds, on the understanding that after the bonsai had been cultivated I would give him two of the full grown trees.
At the end of the three months, during which I watered the germinating seeds at the prescribed intervals, I lifted the tray out of the refrigerator, removed the brown paper, and was rewarded with the sight of several seedlings that looked quite healthy. Now all I had to do was to sit back and watch the bonsai trees grow.
When telling this story in company I usually enjoy keeping my audience in suspense as they wait for the denouement, but we don’t have time for that here today, so I will make the story as short as, well, a bonsai tree.
A few days after the tray was taken out of the refrigerator, the nature and character of the seedlings became unmistakable. They were of the species of edible vegetable known as "water leaf", what the Yoruba call gbure. The chickens that produced the manure I had mixed with the soil had been gorging themselves with gbure seeds, and the end result (if I may use the expression) was a soil enriched with gbure seeds. Of the much desired bonsai seedlings there was not a trace.
I kept my promise to the friend who had given me the packet of seeds. In fact I gave him, not two, but four gbure seedlings. He was not noticeably effusive in expressing his gratitude.

 

 

25 April 2005

Blooming Blooms!

ORGANISERS of The Royal Horticultural Society's Spring Flower Show have hailed the three-day event a tremendous success.
The show, in Cooper’s Field, Cardiff, was also a hit with the exhibitors and thousands of visitors, despite the rather changeable weather over the weekend.
Stephen Bennett, the RHS' managing director, was highly complimentary about the Cardiff show.
"Everyone, from the Lord Mayor and local organising committee, the media, the public and exhibitors, has been so friendly, understanding and knowledgeable. It's been a pleasure to bring the show here."
Mr Bennett was a little more guarded on whether the show would return to the capital, choosing not to commit one way or the other until the attendance figures are confirmed.
"However, the show has been a great success as a public relations exercise and Cardiff can be proud of its show," he said.
Jean Watson, from Cardiff Bonsai Club, said: "It's been a great show for us, a chance to spread the word. We can show people they can have a beautiful bonsai in the smallest garden."

 

 

Bonsai: Natural Stress Busters

For high-stressed techies sequestered in air-conditioned glass offices, here is nature’s stress buster.
India’s software hub now has companies placing Bonsai trees at points near cubicles of code writers to soothe their frayed nerves.
A living art, bonsai creation can be traced to China. Bonsai is fast gaining popularity among IT professionals because of “their aesthetic appeal, therapeutic effect and longevity,” says Bonsai Srinivas, renowned Bonsai expert who has 500 bonsai tree species to his credit.
Since bonsai trees can be kept indoors for two to three days at a stretch, these artistic plants in
enclosed spaces give “out as much oxygen as a fully grown tree, purifying the air while satisfying your creative urges,” he said.
“Owning a bonsai has also become a matter of prestige among IT professionals as each creation is a work of art,” he adds.
For someone who loves greenery notwithstanding the constraints of space in his choc-a-block apartment, bonsai is the answer, says Vallish Herur and Bhargava of “Trees”, the only Bonsai outlet of its kind in Bangalore.
“It was our passion for Bonsai that led to the start of this venture,” say the duo who literally grew up with bonsai, pottering around with HS Nagaraja, Herur’s father and a bonsai expert.
The experts, who also specialise in bonsai landscapes, plan to make presentations in IT companies after the enthusiastic response to bonsai by IT professionals.
“The fact that you take a plant, visualise it in its big tree form, help it grow into a miniature tree form and also see the changes every
day even as it retains its genetic characteristics is what makes Bonsai so innovative and unique,” Herur adds.

 

 

24 April 2005

The A To Z Of A Product Category In One Place

Welcome to the age of the speciality megastore, where the A to Z of a product segment is on display. Two-year-old Bonsai in Aundh is a speciality store for kids, which houses everything from toys to books and stationery to clothes. There are play rooms and child counsellors to boot. Co-owner Deepak Shah says, ‘‘Since our store targets kids, we have advanced security systems, projection screens that show cartoons, an open theatre, a lot of clubbing, and on-the-spot drawing competitions.’’

 

 

Bonsai Srinivas Launches Signature Bonsai

Renowned Bonsai Master Bonsai Srinivas today launched a collection of branded Bonsais 'Signature Bonsai' today.
Talking to newsmen after the launch, Mr Srinivas said that he has entered into a tie-up with US based The Gabriel Management Group (TGMG) for the purpose. Each 'Signature Bonsai' has his signature on the ceramic container that supports the miniature tree. The branded Bonsais will come also with an Authenticity Card which contains tips on maintainance and nurturing Bonsai.
Mr Srinivas, the master of tiny trees has recently gifted his collection of over 700 precious Bonsais to Lalbagh Garden here.
Under the tie-up TGMG will market the bonsai Master's Signature Bonsais in India and the US.
Mr Srinivas announced appointing Mr S K Gutgutia of Florance Flora, one of the largest importers and exporters of exotic flowers and plants equipped with their excellent network for the distribution of Signature Bonsai.
Signature Bonsai is a collection of one to five-year-old plans of some 50-60 different species. The collection consists of two varieties-Standard Collection--plants that can be in the same container for over 15 years, costs Rs 500, while the plants of Starter Collection costing Rs 300 need to be shifted to other containers in three years.
He said that it is proposed to add fruit trees also to the collection of Signature Bonsais.

 

 

No Longer A 'Bonsai'

Telstra chief executive Ziggy Switkowski quipped in February that Optus had become a "bonsai version of Telstra . . . smallish, well-formed, but not growing". The Optus reorganisation confirms that he was half right.
Optus is growing. But it is, like Telstra, a full-service telco, and its new structure recognises that and capitalises on it by giving Optus' businesses more room to cross-sell and service the group's products.
The old structure was created in 2000 and split Optus into three big divisions, covering mobiles, business services, and consumer-multimedia services such as internet, pay TV and local telephony.
It was designed to facilitate a break-up of the group, and it was drawn up on the order of Optus' financially stretched controlling shareholder, Cable & Wireless of Britain, which wanted to buy the business division and depart. Vodafone was expected to buy the mobiles business, and the consumer and multimedia assets were even-money to be sold, or closed down.
But Vodafone was warned off by the ACCC and, as C&W's problems deepened, it became a seller not a buyer. The break-up plan foundered, and in 2001 Singapore Telecommunications bought Optus lock, stock and barrel.
A restructure aiming the group more directly at consumers and bundling opportunities would have made sense after that. With Optus planning to sweeten its suite of products by converting its pay TV to digital, it has become overdue.

 

 

Bonsai Show Slated Today

It's showtime for members of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Bonsai Society, who will display their designs of perfect miniature trees - short, tall, wide, flowering or stark - today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the three-year-old group's first show.
It will be held at Edgewater Mall in Biloxi near the mall entrance to J.C. Penney.
Club officials will be on hand all day to answer questions and share their knowledge.
Trees presented at the show will vary in age from a few years to a few decades and will vary by size, species and climate preferences, but all will conform to the Japanese style, says club spokesman Patrick LaNasa of Diamondhead.
His is the only bonsai club in Mississippi and focuses on members learning and teaching the design principles and practical horticulture involved in classical bonsai.
It can take up to 12 years to create a plant deemed "show worthy," LaNasa says.
The club will have six tables and display up to 18 bonsai trees that include junipers, a Japanese elm, a Brazilian raintree and parsley hawthornes, which are native to Mississippi, LaNasa says, that can be found in woods around here.
There'll also be numerous accent plants that are used as tiny accessories to the trees.
The club meets monthly in Long Beach on the first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the Aquaculture Building of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
Details: Call Patrick LaNasa at 255-8735.

 

 

Bonsai Technology Has Scope In Nepal: Envoy Hiraoka

KATHMANDU, April 16: Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka inaugurated the first National Bonsai Exhibition held at the Radisson Hotel, Lajimpat today with the view of imparting direct information to the people about bonsai technology and plants used for decoration purposes.
Some 90 plants of rare species have been kept on display at the three-day exhibition that aims at wide dissemination on how plants are grown and conserved in flower-pots through Bonsai technology.
Mentioning that the decoration of flowers using Bonsai technology is popular in Japan, Ambassador Hiraoka requested the concerned Nepalese entrepreneurs to adopt the technology as it has good scope in a country like Nepal that was lavish with natural beauty.
Chairman of Nepal Bonsai and Conservation Society (NEBCOS), the organising body, Bijaya Lal Shrestha said that floriculture entrepreneurs could play a vital role in the development and dissemination of Bonsai technology.
Chairman of the Floriculture Association of Nepal Minarba Bista and secretary of the society Surendra Lal Shrestha stressed on the importance of Bonsai technology in poverty reduction, environment conservation, natural decoration and protection of plant species that are on the verge of extinction.
Hundreds of people including environment experts, botanists, nursery operators and individuals with interest in decorative plants and floriculture, participated in the programme.

 

 

Bonsai Now Comes With A Label

Bonsai, the art invented by Indians and preserved by the Japanese, now comes as a branded product to India.
Bangalore-based Bonsai master Bonsai Srinivas launched a collection of branded bonsai plants ‘Signature Bonsai’, bearing his signature, in association with the US-based The Gabriel Management Group (TGMG) on Friday.
Signature Bonsai is a collection of five-year-old plants of some 50-60 species. The collection consists of two varieties. Standard Collection consists of plants, that can be in the same container for over 15 years, cost Rs 500 each, while plants in the Starter Collection costing Rs 300 need to be shifted to other container in three years. Srinivas plans to add fruit trees also to his Signature Bonsai.
Each Signature Bonsai will bear his signature on the ceramic container that supports the miniature tree. The branded bonsai plants will also come with an Authenticity Card which contains tips on maintenance and nurturing.
Srinivas had recently gifted his collection of over 700 bonsai plants to Lalbagh Gardens. The idea of branded bonsai plants came with the recent acquisition of his Bonsai Garden India Pvt Ltd., a company he founded in 1972, by TGMG. TGMG will now market the Signature Bonsai in India and US.
S K Gutgutia of Florance Flora — one of the largest importers and exporters of exotic branded flowers — will be the distributor for the Signature Bonsai in India.
Srinivas will continue as president of the firm with his daughter Shantala Srinivas as the CEO. Shantala Srinivas has been Srinivas’ protege and has been training to become a bonsai master.

 

 

Artichokes Can Thrive In N.M.

May 7 and 8: Ancient Art of Bonsai. Members of the Albuquerque Bonsai Club will be available to answer questions. There will be morning and afternoon demonstrations and an educational table to show the stages of creating a bonsai. Rio Grande Botanic Garden, 2401 Central NW. Admission 13-64 years old $7; 3-12 years old and 65 and older $3.

 

 

Master Calendar

TODAY

Annual bonsai show by the Satsuma Bonsai Club. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Monterey Peninsula Buddhist Temple, 1155 Noche Buena St., Seaside. More than 100 trees will be on exhibit. Free admission, but donations will be accepted. 372-8802.

 

 

IT Professionals Go For Bonsai

For high-stressed techies sequestered in air conditioned glass offices, here is nature's stress buster.
India's software hub is now seeing companies placing Bonsai trees at points near cubicles of code writers to soothe their frayed nerves.
A living art, bonsai creation can be traced to China and it not only adds to aesthetic in interiors but has a therapeutic effect.
Bonsai is fast gaining popularity among IT professionals because of "their aesthetic appeal, therapeutic effect and longevity", says Bonsai Srinivas, renowned Bonsai expert who has 500 bonsai tree species to his credit.
Since bonsai trees can be kept indoors for two to three days at a stretch, these artistic plants in enclosed spaces give "out as much oxygen as a fully grown tree, purifying the air while satisfying your creative urges", he said.
"Owning a bonsai has also become a matter of prestige among IT professionals as each creation is a work of art", he said.

 

 

02 April 2005

Out There: News And Briefs From Around The Region


The bonsai collection at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville will be feature on a four-part UNC-TV series titled "Bonsai: Nature Reflected."

Bonsai!

The unique bonsai collection at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville has inspired a four-part UNC-TV series titled, “Bonsai: Nature Reflected.” The premiere segment airs at 11:30 a.m. today. The remaining segments will air at 11:30 a.m. on consecutive Saturdays though April 23.

Arthur Joura, bonsai curator at the arboretum, is featured in the series. The program’s curator since its inception, Joura has built the collection from modest beginnings in 1992 to more than 100 display-quality plants. The arboretum’s bonsai collection is considered to be one of the finest in the country

 

 

A Potpourri Of Neighborly Advice, Seasonal Reminders, Gardening Events...

Mysteries of bonsai talk -- Edward Rubeck, president of the Wichita Area Bonsai Club, will be at Botanica on Wednesday to explain the horticultural, technical, artistic and philosophical disciplines of bonsai and basic techniques. The lunchtime lecture, from 12:15 to 1 p.m., is included in Botanica admission or membership.

Members of the club will also be at Hong's Landscaping & Nursery every Saturday in April starting today to do a bonsai potting demonstration, answer questions and help anybody who wants to pot up a plant. The potting demonstration will begin at 10 a.m. Hong's is at 8825 E. 31st St. South.

 

 

Bonsai Masters Focus On Minature Trees

Eight people who practice the almost forgotten art of sharing form the essence of the Kauai Bonyu Kai club.
These eight people share one common trait - they love the Japanese art of cultivating miniature trees known as bonsai, and what started out as talk-story sessions has emerged into a club that one member said, "raises the level of bonsai to a higher level."
The eight had their bonsai trees on exhibit at the Kaua‘i Museum Friday. They are scheduled to be on hand today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Abraham Machado, the organization's sensei was on hand Friday along with Sylvia Fujii, Eddie Levinthol, Tandu Sivanathan, Claude Joseph, and Sam Lee as they greeted visitors to the special exhibit, and in many cases, accompanied the visitors, providing a specimen-specific tour that wound from inside the main lobby of the museum and emerged to the interior courtyard that had a portion transformed into a scaleddown Zen garden.
"We wanted to give a feeling of the Orient and the serenity," Fujii said of the garden that Lee said took club members two days to construct.
"It's all related," Levinthol added as he showed off a rock that was part of a bonsai display. "The rock has a form and that form is part of the bonsai. They're related art forms."
Fujii noted that there are special containers created to house the special rock formations that can be part of a bonsai display, or just stand alone.
A 200-year-old buttonwood tree from Florida is one of the oldest specimens on display, the tree originally sent to owner Lance Laney by a relative several years ago.
Sitting next to the buttonwood display is a 65-year-old corkwood black pine that was grown from seed on O‘ahu, the club members adding that the pine plants could not be brought out of Japan, but the seeds were allowed, thus giving birth to the specimen that had a gnarled bark trunk at its heart.
Unlike the mass market shows where heavy foot traffic easily detracts from appreciating the essence of the bonsai, the Kaua‘i Museum setting allowed spectators to become immersed in the specimen in front of them with Kauai Bonyu Kai members eager to offer information, both horticultural as well as historical, the history of each specimen being as unique as the bonsai itself.
One of the bonsai on display showed roots encircled around a rock, and Levinthol explained that the original ficus came from a lady's rock wall.
He said the lady wanted to remove the tree before it destroyed the wall, and despite attempts to kill the tree with herbicides, the tree continued to grow.
Sensei Machado went to see the tree, shook it a few times, and following several key snips at the root system, lifted off the invasive tree to begin life as a bonsai.
Levinthol said that bonsai is a continuing art form that is always changing. He noted that fast-growing plants like the ficus make it easy to change. "Front becomes back, back becomes front. It always changes," he said.
A demonstration of that statement could be seen in a 15-year-old ficus "forest" owned by Joseph who said the original forest started out as 51 plants, and in the process of reaching its state as display, various plants were "fused" together to create singular trunks.
Fujii explained that when they first started meeting, everyone had a lot of plants they were caring for, but since the formation of Kauai Bunyo Kai, everyone has downsized to where they have about 15-20 plants that get attention.
"Abe, Ed, and Tandu live pretty close to each other," Fujii said of the club's birth. "Sylvia, Sam, Claude, and Lance all live on the South Shore, and on occasion would meet with the Kapa‘a trio to share ideas."
Now, the group meets regularly, and a visit by Kenji, a renown bonsai master from Japan, saw the club's name emerge, the Japanese bonsai expert also giving the name "Shoko" to an ironwood bonsai belonging to Levinthol because of the emotion evoked when looking at the 40-year-old specimen.
"We also belong to the Kaua‘i Bonsai Club," Fujii said. But, the different can only be experienced by visiting the exhibit where the talents of the Bunkyo Kai members are carried in the breeze that filters through the array of specimen on display.
The exhibit and club members will be available at the Kaua‘i Museum on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
There is no admission charge for the bonsai exhibit which coincides with the Kaua‘i Museum's monthly Family Day.

 

 

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