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B O N S A I S O C I E T I E SO F F L O R I D A , I N C .
VOL XXXV NUMBER 2 ISSUE 146
M A Y
2 0 0 6
BSF Convention 2006
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To all club members, and es-
pecially ofcers of clubs. Rec-
ognize your key people, the ones
who make your club work. Who
does the work?
Who can you de-
pend on? Did you
hear from yourDistrict Trustee?
Here is the letter
that was sent to
them by President
Louise. She has
spent a lot of time
trying to get people
to make this hap-
pen so good peopleare recognized for
what they do for others.
Dear Trustees,
As Awards Chair I want to
send you a picture of the New
BSF Volunteer Award Pin. This
pin will replace the old award
given to volunteers within the
clubs. Please take this picture to
the clubs so they might see what
the awards look like. Only two
volunteers per club each year. I
still have many clubs that have
not sent me names of award
winners, It seems like such a
small thing to recognize our
great volunteers and a simple
e-mail would put them in for an
award. Lets try to make sure allthe clubs know what is going on
with BSF at this time. Many hours
of work has been put into this pro-
gram and we need to make sure we
keep the membership up to date on
what is going on.
At this time I want
to thank all of you
for getting in your
Trustee awards this
year. Thanks to you,
I have an award for
each district.
One last pitch
for Scholarship en-
tries at this time.
Any club or study
group can enter theawards this year.
Please have them send all awards
and scholarship applications to me
at my e-mail address.
Thank you, and I look forward
to seeing you all soon.
As always
Louise Leister
You will note, Louise is also try-
ing to get Scholarship entries.
You will want to attend the Club
Night activities at the conven-
tionthat has become the big night
for popular events.
To communicate more the Trust-
ees will have to make it happen at
your meetings. There is much go-
A nice way to say thanks.
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CURATE TIMELY INFORMATION SEE THE BSF WEB SITE.
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50601. Bonsai: But-
tonwood, Conocar-
pus erectus, infor-
mal , IT 1979
Price $5,200.
Classifed Page: BSF Members have the following bonsairelated items for sale. Members listing only, anyone can purchase
the object. Contact Editor by email to list or to contact the seller.
Indicate the words Selling or Buying in the Subject of the
Email. Refer to the number and object in the text, and how the
seller can contact you.
4062. Estate sale: a life long
collection of bonsai for sale. 75
Bonsai priced or best offer. All
must go, moving and cannot
keep them. Open house 5/15/06
50623. Tool wrap with wire cut-
ter, concave cutter, knob cutter,
heavy shears, pruning shears,
root hook. Used.
Price $35.00
THIS IS SOMETHING A FEW MEMBERS REQUESTEDA
CLASSIFIED PAGE. IT HAS ALSO BEEN SUGGESTED WE
CHARGE 10% OF THE SALES PRICE FOR THIS SERVICE.
AND, ALLOW SALES BY MEMBERS ONLY, LET ANYONEPURCHASE. EDITOR OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS.
ing onBSF is working for you.
Speaking of goings on. Is your
club showing its schedule on the
web page? Those who have web
sites, and newsletters now can
let the world know what you do.
STOP HERE AND GO TO http://www.bonsai-bsf.com. If you are
reading this on the screen version-
just click it, and go to the Club
Events and Newsletters page.
There you will see a schedule,
similar to the one on the back page
of this magazine, with lots more
information available to you from
every club who sends the mate-
rial to me. Within 24 hours (sofar) the newsletters are available
to your members, and the world
on the web. If you want people in
your area to nd you, this is it. If
anyone comes to Florida, they can
know in an instant who is doing
what along the way. I kid you not,
it was through a meeting notice
in a newspaper I stumbled on in
San Diego that I found a meeting
and through them found a way to
contact BSF, even the West Palm
Club. By chance I saw my rst
John Naka demo whacking a large
juniper, and I never had heard of
him before that.
We are trying to make it easier in
Florida, so get the information to
me. It will get out in many ways.Check for shows, auctions and es-
pecially conventions. You can
see who has a program when
you visit another city in Florida.
You can plan ahead and sched-
ule your travels to attend special
meetings all over the place. I am
even thinking of adding a col-
umn for out-of-state newslettersas I get them.
Louise has asked me to do a
quickie seminar at the conven-
tion to help people know how to
take advantage of the web site
and its content. I welcome any
computer experts to help on this
assignment.
On another subject. Randy
wraps up his juniper series in
this issue. Does anyone have
some technical knowledge they
would like to share, some handy
gimmick they found to work for
them, it would be nice to have
something good for the future
to read in this magazine. Let me
know. The next (Aug) issue will
have a lot of convention news,but we need to be sure to share
bonsai knowledge too.
Cant get anyone to share with
us What bonsai means to me.
Surely anyone can write about
that. I have had good compli-
ments on these past articles by
members.
Editor
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OFFICERS/TRUSTEES &
COMMITTEESOFFICERS:
President Louise Leister
1st Vice President Tammy Malin
2nd Vice President Henri VermeulanTreasurer Ed Lippencott
Assistant Treasurer Dave Bechtold
Corres. Secretary Vladimir Foursa
Recording Secretary Carol McKinney
Past President Gene Callahan
Trustees:
Dist. 1 Lynn Fabian
Dist. 2 Carol Partelow
Dist. 3 Barbara Chapman
Dist. 4 Henry Robbins
Dist. 5 Robert Yarbrough
Dist. 6 Ray MalinDist. 7 Judy Gore
Dist 8 Larry Duke
Committees:
Archives Dick Miller
Education Ray Malin
EPCOT/BSF Peter Wood
Membership Tammy Malin
Publications/Editor: Dick Miller
Publications/Web: Dick Miller
Speakers Stan Orsolek
CREDITS/THANKS
Thanks to the Gainesville Bonsai
for the cover, and the logo paint-
ing by artist Stewart J. Thomas.
Above all thanks to the Gaines-
ville folks for hosting the next
convention
HuhRah!!!
BONSAI SOCIETIES OF FLORIDA
M E M BE R SHI P
Individualsacquire BSF member-
ship as members of a local Member
Club.
Other memberships include:Member-At-Large,
Member Organization At Large,
Donor Membership, or
Special Life Membership.
For membership information con-
tact your local club, the BSF web
site, or:
Tammy Malin
Membership Chair
P.O. Box 12124Fort Pierce, FL 34979-2124
Email: [email protected]
SPECIAL RECOGNITION
You will nd many members of
BSF recognized at the convention
in Gainesville, some noted herein,
so we wont deal with it in this
short space.
For all the work the Gainesville
club is doing, lets take advantage
of it and be there for another great
show.
See you in Gainesville on May 26
- 29, lets build some BONSAI
BRIDGES.
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1408 Colwyn Dr.Cantonment, FL 32533
Come
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onvention
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Email: [email protected]
Register at www.chinaBi.com for latest Catalog
DRAGON TREE BONSAINURSERYPre-Bonsai:
Collected or,Nursery Grown
Classes
Club ToursWorkshopsDemonstrations
Specializing in largespecimen bonsai plants.
Enjoy! Happy to see you.
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WEBSITE: www.Bonsai-Mart.com
189 pages and adding items regularly.
Seeour
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Thekla T Morris
Award: a big thank
you for years and years
of unsung work. Every
convention, every day
from morning to closing,T rules the tables with
the donations for the
silent auction to be sold
to support the magazine.
Volunteers come and go, but T stays
and watches her hoard of goodies.
She knows from being the editor for
12 years, what goes into the magazine,
the value of having it and the need for
support to keep it going.
This award adds to the growing
numbers of recognitions that she has
been getting for her many many years
of work for BSF.
Since 1973 T Morris has been
involved in bonsai at her home club of
Pensacola Gulf Coast Bonsai Society
and with BSF since its inception. She
was one of the rst people to join
PGCBS, along with Ed Potter (BSFs
founding and rst president.)
Her contribution has been her
willingness to take on supporting the
magazine not only once, but again and
again. She donates to all the club and
convention auctions and often takes
home more than she donates (she is her
best customer at the silent bidding).
Most of us reserve the #1 bidding cardfor T. Beware anyone who tries to out-
bid her on an item she really wants. She
is usually rst and last
in line anyhow. From
this job she can see all
the good things up for
sale, and is there when
the bidding closes. So
it you see her name onthe bid sheet, you can
bet you are not going
to steal it for less than
it is worth, so keep
trying.
She has presented many programs at
club shows, meetings and the local Japan
Club in Pensacola. T goes the extra mile,
she pro-
vides the
material,
prepares
the stones
for the
plantings
and brings
the soil for
potting and supplies the trays to display the
stone planting on.
She holds the ofce of treasurer of
PGCBS. In March of 2005 Thekla Morris
was recognized by the Azalea City Bonsai
Society for her contributions to bonsai, and
at the convention she received the Legacy
Award for many things not included above.
T Morris, I thank you from the bottom
of an editors heart, and hope you will
continue to keep us on the straight and
narrow with these silent auctions for manyyears to come.
Editors Award
CONTE
NT
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BONSAI CLUBINFORMATION
FEATURED
ARTICLES
SPECIAL
FEATURES
Editors Award ..........................................................
45
iVolunteer Award .....................................................
Calendar/Club events .............................................
42
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BSF Featured Club ..................................................
19Convention Information ........................................
Presidents Page: by Louise ...................................
Interview: Pedro Morales ......................................
The Art of Joe Samuels ..........................................
Morikami ..................................................................
34ECOT Sampler ........................................................
Junipers Part Four: Randy Brooks ......................
Prison Update ..........................................................
Classified Page Proposal ....................................... 44
32Bonsai Raffle ............................................................
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FLORIDA BONSAI IN COLOR
A black and white printed version
of the magazine is provided to
members of the Bonsai Societies of
Florida.
It is also available to them in full
color for viewing or by download-ing from the BSF web site:
http://www.bonsai-bsf.com/color_cy.htm
There is a version for printing a
booklet, and another one for read-
ing on the screen.
Be sure you have a current version
of Adobe Reader available free onthe rst Publications page.
CORRECTIONS
I am not that good. You are holding
back corrections or comments.
FLORIDA BONSAI
444 MUIRFIELD DR.
ATLANTIS, FL 33462-1206
Editor:
Richard M. Miller
Louise Leister
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Palm Coast, FL 32127
FLORIDA BONSAIis the
ofcial publication of the
Bonsai Societies of Florida.
It is published quarterly, in
Feb., May, Aug., and Nov., andis provided to each member.
Be sure to visit our web site at:
http://www.bonsai-bsf.com
Web Master:
Dick Miller
ADVERTISINGALL ADVERTISING RATES
HAVE CHANGED.
Contact the Editor, noted above,
for rates and conditions.
DEADLINES FOR MATERIAL
& ADVERTISEMENTS:Spring. issue.. . . . . . Dec 10Summer issue . . . . . . Mar 10
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The Pines
Time
See PRESIDENT page 2 >
From the Top:
Again I find myselflooking and wonder-ing where the time hasgone as we are fast ap-proaching our springevents. Tey say time
flies when youre hav-ing fun, so we must behaving fun!!
Te InternationalFlower and GardenShow at Epcot will behere soon and it was adifficult task pickingthe trees this year. We had a record 67entries and even with the additional
trees to the China exhibit we were lim-ited to 30 pieces. Last August we askedthe membership to send in Penjingentries for the expansion of the Chinaexhibit and to no surprise the BSFmembership came through and sup-plied us with a large amount of beauti-ful Penjing submissions. We welcomeyour comments on the trees and theoverall exhibit. Epcot is working withus and is very happy to again preview
Florida Bonsai trees to their guests.Japan again will include the BSF logotree and a tree from the Morikami
which is the beautiful Powder Puffthat the late Millie Cooper donated tothe Museum. We also had two youngartists for the second time: RyanGlenn age 15 and Charles Bevens age17. Along with these two young men
we have also had several new first time
members trees in the exhibit. Again,our very talented artists
from Florida willbe exhibiting theirmasterpieces, JimSmith, Ed rout, JimVan Landingham,Mike Cartrett, MikeRogers and Rob
Kempinski. I inviteyou to attend theEpcot Flower andGarden Show andgive support to yourfellow bonsai artists.Pictures of the trees
will also be includedin the BSF magazine
for those who cant make the show.I want to thank the exhibitors, the
committee and our committee chairPeter Wood for all the hard work ittakes to put on the exhibit each year.
Convention time is right aroundthe corner and I look forward toseeing all of you at the conventionthis year. Gainesville has gatheredquite a block of bonsai talent for usto see. I cant wait to see the mate-rial and look forward to being part
of this event. Awards for Volunteerswill be given at the BSF annualmeeting where we will make severalimportant announcements for themember clubs of BSF. Insurance formember clubs is one item on theagenda along with events for 2007and 2008. Dick has an informative
website program in store for you. Ithink all who attend will be quitehappy with what we are planning
for the following years and changes
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> PRESIDENT From page 1
Louise
made. We need you to attend themeeting so all clubs are informed andabreast of the new changes within theFlorida Bonsai world.
Our Visiting Artist Program hashad a very busy winter and spring
with visits from new artists andsome revisiting old friends. Tose ofyou lucky enough to have had edMatson enjoyed his knowledge andtalent. I know the e-mails I receivedshowed that everyone felt he was a
wonderful and talented artist and allshowed great interest in having himback again next year. I was luckyenough to have him overnight andenjoyed his company and our con-
versation. Along with ed we againhad the pleasure of Roy Nagatoshispresence. What can be said aboutRoy is that he is a real gentleman andhis knowledge of the art of bonsai isa joy. As usual, Ben Oki was a realattention getter and was a sell out ashe is every year. Ben will always be aspecial friend to us here in Florida.Tese three California artists we
would welcome back anytime. Pleasetake a moment to drop Stan a lineto say what a great time you had and
whether you would like to see theseartists back again. I want to thankStan for all his hard work and thetrouble he has to deal within todaysage of travel. His job is the hardestone in BSF and most times he deals
with airlines cancelled flights and thetrouble of getting the artist from one
place to another. Most of us dont un-derstand what is involved in making
these arrangements so please let Stanknow what a good time you had.
As awards chair I have the pleasureto announce the winners of the 2006BSF awards.
Lifetime Award Elyse Van DykeLegacy Award 1. Mary Madison 2. Mary Miller 3. Ed LippincottTese are the top award winners
but we have many more awardswhich will be presented at the 2006convention. I want to congratulate allthose who have given of themselvesto the art of bonsai in Florida. Lookaround you and notice the world-class trees we have within the stateand realize that these people are the
reason we have these tress amongus. Over the years they have givenof their time and craft to the educa-tion and betterment of bonsai inFlorida. Tey are the legacy of BSFand through their dedication have
worked hard to create beautiful worksof art. Tey are the embodiment ofour history, and I know that without them our bonsai talent would belimited. Im honored to present them
with their well deserved awards at the2006 Banquet in Gainesville. Tankyou from BSF.
I hope to see you all in the nearfuture and I plan to visit many moreof your events this year, so keep yourevents coming to me via e-mail orsnail mail, or get on the BSF websiteso I can keep up. Stay well, and mayall your trees grow happily
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Joes ArtHere are a few samples of the beautiful art work of
Joe Samuels.It is rare anyone gets to beneft by seeing these
wonders, until he had a show last December. It was
a pleasure and honor to be there.
Sabal Palm
Calle Ocho
Pedro Morales
An Interview
See Interviewpage 4 >
Pedro is a very inter-esting, energetic youngman and he doesntspeak with a Chicago ac-cent. In the photo, he is
a walking advertisementfor the BCI conventionin San Juan, in 2007.Tat very patriotic logohe is showing on his sleeve, is that ofthe Federacion De Bonsai De PuertoRico. Te other one is BCIFELAB2007, he is Chairman of that and a
World Convention in 2009.
See http://www.bcifelab2007.com,
you will get a South of the Bordertreat, hold on to your seat.
Ed: How long have you been work-ing at bonsai?
PM: I have been doing this for 22years now. I began to get seriousin 1984
ED: How did you get started?
PM: My teacher at the University
of Puerto Rico, Maria Riera,gave me an assignment to write areport and give an oral presenta-tion. Te theme was Bonsai. SoI had to look for information onthis.
ED: About how many do youhave?
PM: At this time, too many!!! Morethan 300. And, now Im work-
ing on my own nursery and havea lot more there.
ED: When did youjoin your first club?
PM: A few yearsafter the report, Iheard about the localClub de Bonsai dePuerto Rico and I
started going there.I took classes there
with Adan Montalvoand kept looking
for any information available onbonsai.
ED: What clubs do you belong tonow?
PM: Here in Puerto Rico: Club deBonsai de PR, Federacin Bonsai
de PR and Bonsaistas Asociadosde Carolina.
ED: What offices have you held?
PM: President, vice-president,treasurer and officer. I am still thepresident of the Federacin deBonsai de Puerto Rico and havebeen an officer since the founda-tion in 1993.
ED: Married-how long- where youmet-when and where?
PM: Divorced, with two boys, Kikeand Joel and now married againfor 5 years with Yrene Vsquezfrom Venezuela, with 2 more chil-dren, a girl & a boy. Yrene alsodoes bonsai.
ED: Where were you born?When?
PM: I was born in Chicago,
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Maple
Acer buergerianum
32/20/15 (L/H/D)
Juniper
Juniper procumbens nana
31/24/14 (L/H/D)
Winged Elm
Elmus alata
32/42/22 (L/H/D)
EPCOT Samples (Continued)
>EPCOTfrom page 35selection as second runner-up onthe World Bonsai Contest. Mademy wife and me cry with joy.
ED: Biggest frustration?
PM: Not being recognized in myown country.
ED: Any other hobbies?
Pm: Strangely! I collect guitar pinsfrom Hard Rock Caf and 1:18scale cars. I have many, manymany of both!!!!
ED: Any thing else you want tosay.
PM: I have to say that I enjoy whatIm doing now. Tis is the perfect
way to live. My two families
are happy, my boys help me alot with the nursery and rent-ing bonsai business and I get totravel all around the world doingbonsai. Life is great!
I like to be alone sometimestothink and relax. I can do this
when Im watering my trees. Tisgives me time to talk to them
PS: Pedro sent me the Neea Buxifo-lia shown below to be displayedin the Gulf Stream bonsaiCollection at the MorikamiMuseum. He has worked on itfor about two years, and finally it
was ready to be sent.
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Junipers Part IV
By Randy BrooksMiami Bonsai Society
Gold Coast Bonsai Society
Attack of the killer mites
Warning: Tis article has not yetbeen rated and may contain depictionsof violence, crawly things and yuckystuff. It may not be suitable for theembarrassingly squeamish. Parentalsupervision is not advised, kids tend tolike bugs.
Youve got mites. No, not youpersonally. Tats what theyre say-ing about the juniper that youve
brought in to a club meeting. Ofcourse, youre in immediate denialas the declarer calls out for a sheet ofpaper to prove your malady. How-ever, what is even scarier than thepossibility of mites, is the enigmaof where all those sheets of paperappear from. Say the word mites atany bonsai club meeting and a slip
will materialize from thin air. If youwere stuck on an island with justyour juniper and ten other bonsaienthusiast, someone would say,Youve got mites, and immediatelya perfectly clean, unfolded sheet ofplain white paper would materializeso they could prove it you. Penn andeller have nothing over some bon-sai hobbyist and their blank pages. Idont know about you, but stuff likethat frightens me.
So you watch as they abscond
with your plant andbegin to shake it over thatmysterious slip of paper.If youre lucky, they dontbeat your poor tree todeath. But do beware,these people may be moredangerous than the mites.
After some prescribed time, orwhen they feel they have sufficientlydislodged enough material to showyou, the spontaneously appearingleaf of paper is suddenly under yournose, and someone is shouting,See! SEE! SEEEEEE! I OLD
YOU!!! Do you seeem? Seeem? Doyou see them RUNNING?!
Afraid of being the only one
who apparently doesnt see them,or more probably out of the fear ofthose who areseeing these thingsscurrying about, and are getting somaniacal about it, you mumble,Uh, yeah, sure.
You better get rid of them.You better get them under control UNDER CONROL! Yep, youbetter get them under control, they
implore, or theyll kill your plant!
Kill your beautiful juniper? Yousnatch it back protectively andbegin looking for an opening toescape from these crazy people withtheir sheets of paper and things youcant see.
(Warning: One of those icky scenesnot for the timid is about to berecounted. You may want to momen-
tarily turn away. Dont say you
Ficus
Ficus retusa kingman
29/23/46 (L/H/D)
Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea
44/42/34 (L/H/D)
EPCO International
Flower and Garden Show
See EPCOTpage 36 >
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Ilex
Ilex vomitoria nana
31/30/30 (L/H/D)
Willow Leaf Ficus
Ficus salicifolia
28/38/27 (L/H/D)
Buttonwood
Conocarpus erectus
45/42/38 (L/H/D)
A few Samples
of the display at
See JUNIPER page 22 >
werent warned!)
Just look at them!they command of you,and even though youknow you shouldnt,like an accident on thefreeway that you cant
turn away from, youlook. Watch this! Andthey drag their fingeracross the paper, appar-ently over some tiny alien bodiesthat you were previously unawareof. Smudges of something appearon the paper. Look at them smear,they cry gleefully.
(Icky scene over: You can look back
now.)Who are these nuts, and why
would killing some microscopicbugs amuse them so? Should theybe feared? Is this condition con-tagious? And, what about thosesmears? Tere was something thereafter all something that was livingand feeding off your plant. How docombat something you cant evensee? Its like a scene out of a bad sci-fi movie.
Well, were glad you asked,because mites are serious business.(Cant you tell?). But, before we cantell you what to do about them, youneed to know just what it is yourecombatting.
First of all, mites arent bugs. obe bugs they would have to be in-
sects, and theyre not insects. Mitesare arachnids. Teyre related to spi-
ders, scorpions, daddy-long-legs, and ticks. Tisis an important thingto be aware of becauseif you arent aware ofthis and its implicationsyoull end up doingmore harm than good.Even people who areaware tend to ignore themeaning and proceed
with actions that they should knowwont be beneficial to their plants orsurroundings.
A lot of different critters live inyour garden, and, contrary to yourfears, most of them probably domore good than harm at least the
ones you can see. Youve got birds,reptiles, snails, insects, mites, and amillion other things living out there.Now, you wouldnt spray your plants
with insecticide to keep squirrels offof them, would you? You wouldntspread diatomaceous earth to keepraccoons out of your yard, wouldyou? Well, you shouldnt be spray-ing insecticides to keep mites away
either. Insects and mites are physi-ologically very different. Insecticideswont have any effect on mites, andeven those insecticides that claim tobe effective against mites have sucha weak or diluted miticide compo-nent that theyre more likely to justincrease resistance in the mites thanhave any real benefit. Tese sprays,and the even more powerful miti-cides, have no effect on the eggs, so
if you ignore everything here and
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THE PRISON PROJECT
by John Derr
Mr. Ben Oki hasvisited Florida each
January for more than
twenty years. Eachof the last twenty twoof those years, he hasmade the trip to a prisonin Starke, where he donates aday ofhis visitto work
withinmateson a
bonsaicollec-tion.Bonsai enthusiasts from Florida andGeorgia have participated in the
workshop, working with and alongside the inmates to transplant, trim,
and wire. Tere have been as manyas eight volunteers, and more thantwenty inmates in attendance. Tis
year there were two volunteers andtwenty three inmates. Still, each
inmate was able to create his ownbonsai and to assist in the
work on the collection.
New River Cor-rectional Institutionis right across thestreet from the Flor-
ida State Prison.It is just a half mile
or so down the streetfrom the Union Cor-
rectional Institution. NewRiver C.I. hasthree commer-cial greenhousesand a largearea of nurseryplants, gardens,and livestock.
Tegreen-houses
hold tropical bonsai, in-door plants, orchids, seedflats and cuttings. Inmatesare selected to work in thenursery and bonsai area,and must earn their place.
Te day begins earlywhen Mr. Oki visits. He
arrives and is ready to work at 8:30AM. Te inmates are present and a
few problem trees have already beenselected and lined up for inspection.
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JUNIPER BONSAI RAFFLE
Heres your chance to add an excellent tree to your collection andhelp out a good cause. BSF is raffling this tree off to raise money topay for a visiting artists travel expense. Te tree will be exhibited at
the 2006 Convention in Gainesville and will travel to clubs through-out the state over the course of the next 6 months. Te winningticket will be drawn in December, which should give everyone achance to buy a ticket for this spectacular tree. ickets for this treeare $5 a piece. You may buy tickets at the convention, through yourBSF trustee, or you may purchase tickets from the BSF treasurer.Jason Schley of Schleys nursery in Daytona Beach supplied this tree.Jason has many fine trees at his nursery, so stop in when you have thechance. Please visit Jasons website at http://www.Schleysbonsai.comfor more information. (See his new ad in this issueand thank him.)
In anticipation of the proposed Classied Page on page 44, I was
asked to notify you about this opportunity to be presented to inter-
ested parties as noted. Study your last three issues on how to keep
this great juniper healthy.
Juniper Parsonii:
19 inches tall
21 inches wide Nebari 7 inches
At 4 inches
from the base,
the trunk
width is 11/2in.
In a 121/2in
Japanese pot
See Prisonpage 10 >
Tis year, I had the privilege of in-troducing Mr. Oki to the group, andthe painful task of telling everyone
of Harold Harveys passing. Mr.Harvey was the programs organizerand chief spokesman for more than
ten years. He is sorely missed.Many of the inmates rememberedhim well, and I heard him spokenof often that day. He was certainlypresent inspirit, andmany ofthe lessonshe taught
were re-memberedand passedalong toothers bythe inmates
who re-memberedhim.
As somefellows
worked on
the repot-
ting and trimming of the collection,others went with me to the nurseryto select trees to make into bonsai.
Many of the inmatesselected personal treesfrom these, but somehad already put a treeaside, months before,
in anticipation of ourvisit. Once a tree wasdesigned, Mr. Oki
would have a finallook at it, then drawa picture of the futuretree for the proud
new owner. We discussed care andfuture training, the value of patienceand importance of discipline. Some
inmates talked of home, or of im-pending release. Few had experiencewith bonsai outside of the program,but each year I have been involved I
have marveled at their interest
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>Prisonfrom page 9
This year, in response to many requests by partici pantsand volunteers, we will be expanding the project to threevisits, spr ing , fa ll and January. Anyone intere sted involun tee ring should contact me, and ask to be inc luded onthe email or phone l ist.
and enthusiasm.
I hesitate to suggest that lunch isthe high point of the day, but lunchis always good, and a full morningof potting, trimming, wiring andteaching certainly creates an ap-
petite. Volunteers eat in the Cor-rection Officer canteen, outsidethe fences. Before the canteen wasadded, we ate inside the compound.During the conversion to privatiza-tion, there was one year when theCorrections Officers made lunch forus. Fresh greens from the garden
were put in a large pot outside, over
a propane cooker. Cornbread,venison, chicken wings and home-made salsa had been brought fromofficers homes. It was a memorable
feast. If Florida ever had a chanceto convince Mr. Oki to move fromCalifornia, that was the day.
Years ago, wehad to go throughthe main gate toget to the trees. Inthose days, eachtool had to be in-spected, and cata-loged, on enteringand exiting the facility. Just getting
to work was complex. It did helpme identify which of my tools werereally essential. Tose days are nowpast. Now we let the administrationoffice know we have arrived, and areescorted around the facility directlyto the nursery area.
In the afternoon, after lunch, anew group of inmates brings theirenthusiasm and ideas to the workarea. Te workday ends at about3:30 - 4:00 PM. Tis is to allowtravel time. Leaving takes a little
while as we shake hands and learnwho will be there next year and whowill not. In this place, not being
there next year is a good thing.
Bonsai cultivation began at theUnion Correctional Institute,sometime after 1960. It appears
to have grown out of the instituteshorticultural project, as a result of
inmate interest. Aplaque, prominentlydisplayed at NewRiver CorrectionalInstitute, indicatesthe Garden TerapyProject was started in1960, by the FloridaFederation of Garden
Clubs. We do know that in 1983,
A big old pot with a chipped lip.
Put them together and you have . . .
A phoenix Graft.
A new bonsai arises, with lots ofopportunities for development.
Shazam!!!
The moral ofthe story is:Dont throwa n y t h i n gaway.
A great master said,
There is no such thing
as an ugly tree, just
poor bonsai skills.
challenge out there.
3
4
A mythical oriental phoenix
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Honor Roll in the Morikami Park.Because PresidentLouise had to leaveSaturday, and Ed
was there Sunday,I had to do thehonors for her andBSF.
She had to gethome to deal withthe jewel she foundat a vendor booth.
Always anotherchallenge to con-quer. Oh, I gottahave that one.
I need to makean other pointhere, Larry constantly provides me
with photographs for all kinds ofprograms, and rarely gets mentionof his work. I really appreciate it,and get the credit for publishing thegreat photos he takes with his trustycamera. Glad we dont have to buyhis film. Henry, he deserves to bepaid for the disks, even though they
are cheap.
Sorry Kawa, we showhere a poster picture of
true Joy Of Bonsai
And, a very dead tree stump.
Take a sorry looking tree with
little or no bonsai potential.
There is always a new
And . . . .
1
2
> BSPB from page 29
S Prisonpage 14>
the horticultural project as wellas bonsai were at Union C.I., justdown the street from New RiverC.I., where the bonsai collectionnow resides. See Te wentieth
Anniversary of Bonsai Behind Bars,Florida Bonsai, Feb. 2005, XXXV,page 28, also, XXVII (1998); 1:38,
AND XXIX (1999); 2:11.
BSF involvement in the bon-sai project began in 1983, whenmembers of the aki Bonsai Soci-ety of Lake City paid a visit to the
horticulture project at Union C.I.At that time, under the supervisionof M. B. Jordan, inmates at UnionC.I. had been working on bonsai foryears. Edna Hindson, a foundingmember of the club, wrote about thebonsai efforts in the prison and withher club members, set out to deter-mine how best to assist their efforts.
Jean Smith, then chair of the Speak-ers Bureau of BSF, realized Ben Oki
had an open day in his schedule in
the area, and called him to ask ifhe would be interested in going toprison. When he learned the fullstory, Mr. Oki eagerly agreed. Hecharged for the workshop only onhis first visit. Tereafter, and fortwenty-two years, he has donatedthe day to the project.
Duane Clayburn was also involvedearly on.Mr. OkistravelthroughnorthFlorida isby auto-mobile,through
club vol-unteers.His Janu-ary visitbegins inPensacola
and moves through allahassee, toStarke, to the central Florida clubs,before turning south. Mr. Clay-burn, and others, have driven him
to prison each year. Mr. Clayburntold me about the project, andshared pictures of the collection ofa number of large podocarpus fromthe grounds of Florida State Prisonin 1991.. Tese trees had been in ahedgerow for more than 45 years. Acouple still survive. Tey representsome tough and heavy transplanting
work.
For several years, I have driven Mr.
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Elyse J. Van Dykeby E.L. Fabian
Ms. Van Dyke is one of our
most honored and respected
individuals having devoted over
thirty years to the art and science
of bonsai. This generation-long
dedication to our Club, the
Bonsai Societies of Florida,
Bonsai Clubs International and to
many other national and Interna-
tional bonsai entities has brought
our Club and BSF to the atten-
tion of national and international
bonsai masters. She has worked
on behalf of the bonsai commu-
nities, representing our interests
and representing us to world class
masters. Her energetic attendance
at Conventions worldwide has
provided exposure for BSF and our
Club. In the process, we gained the
goodwill and dedication of others
who came and taught us the art of
bonsai.
Presidents, secretaries, planners,
committee chairs, hosts and oth-
ers involved in making Clubs and
events successful devote enor-
mous amounts of time that are not
recorded. Many single deeds and
contributions worthy of recogni-
tion get lost. Occasionally, we rec-
ognize some by highlighting their
major activities and participation insignicant events, knowing
that the underpinnings of
these successes have
long been forgotten.
Elyse and a few
others gathered in
Ft. Walton Beach andbegan what was to
become the
Ft. Walton
Beach Bonsai Society. She also helped
create the Bonsai Societies of Florida,
becoming a charter member.
Her activities at the BSF level were:
Treasurer (1977), President (1985-87
and 1991-93), and as First and Second
V. P. She spent years on the board oftrustees and committees.
She served BCI as corresponding
secretary (1984-1986), director (1986-
87 and 1989-91) and chairman of the
BCI convention in Orlando in 1983.
As part of the recognition for her sup-
port of BCI, she was awarded the BCI
Meritorious Award in 1999.
It is almost impossible to list all
of her achievements over these three
decades. It must be said, however, that
few individuals have contributed more
than she to advancement of bonsai to
the benet of FWBBS, BCI and BSF.
She deserves the highest accolades we
can give as she is a most honored and
dedicated member of our societies,
who has served with seless dedica-
tion and continues to serve with asmuch vigor and energy as ever.
Lifetime Achievement Award will have to take it on ourselves toadvertise that we do thatthe worddid not get out.
Tere were others working at thetables, but our crack photographer,Larry Duke only sent me photosof oby Diaz. oby and his wife
helped a lot with visitors. On top ofthat oby had a special assignment;he did a World Masters job of
wiring the Winged/Lemon Elm(Elmus alata) Eric Wickert put ondisplay at the Museum. What anbeauty that is! Tis thing can best bedescribed as Bonsai oday Covermaterial. And, since then, we have
leaves roaring out all over it in itsnew location in the Gulf StreamCollection.
Anyway, we surely appreciate theoutstanding Winged Elm, even ifthe wings are missing for now.
Ten there was the delivery of thelong promised bonsai from PedroMorales, one of his famous Nias(Neea buxifolia).
Finally, and I mean finally, we
Great location for a great bonsai
recognize Ed rout for all he hasdone for bonsai in Florida, and atthe Morikami in particular. We took
this opportunity to let Ed watch the
fixing of his name on the BSF
See Morikamipage 30 >
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More thingsgoing on at theMorikami thanyou can count.
We started with Ben Oki doing
some work and critiquing the collec-tion and demonstrating his skills inJanuary.
Tenit wasget readyfor theHatsumeFair forFebru-ary. Te Museumdid its thing andprovided us with
the samegreatfacilities
we had
last year,and it worked great.
Tanks goEd rout,Merv Green-berg, and VladFoursa for do-ing outstand-ing demonstra-tions again.
Others
worked atthe tablesfor thevisitors togawk atand askquestions.
We got a
few people with bonsai troubles forour clinic. However, next year we
Donor, Designer, and new Keeper.
Collaboration: Ernie & Toby
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386/295-2612
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>Prisonfrom page 11
Oki to Starke and volunteered withthe program. Last year, Mr. Harveyasked me if I would be interested inrunning the program. I told him I
would. I did not realize I would becalled upon to step in so soon.
Tis year, in response to manyrequests by participants and vol-unteers, we will be expanding theproject to three visits, spring, falland January. Anyone interested involunteering should contact me, andask to be included on the email ortelephone list. Te project needssoil, tools, books, pots, and trees.
Anything bonsai related will bewelcomed by the participants.
I hate more government, and inparticular more taxes for them tospend, but, with all the money theyspend on stupid ineffective pro-grams, it would seem that this is anexcellent, inexpensive, and provenprogram for either the Bureau ofPrisons, or Parks and Recreation toimprove recycling people. Strikes
me this kind of success should bepropagated to more prisons, (zerorecidivism, in 20 plus years!) and thestate could provide a grant for BSFto pay for masters to do this every-
where they can. Tank you Ben fordonating your time, but it isnt yourresponsibility. If we plan on doingmore programs, with more masters,and volunteers who give of their
time and work days.....(ask Force?)Louise - another opportunity!
Maybe we should get someonesattention in allahassee (with theprison managements knowledgeand agreement of course). I won-der why this program has not beentried elsewhere? Tey try all kinds ofother crazy stuff.
Editor
About Junipers Questions for Randy
Here are some of the question re-
sulting from the rst three issues
of Randys presentation about
junipers. If you have a question
that is not covered here send it
to me at [email protected] before June so Randy can
answer them for the next issue
ofFlorida Bonsai.
1. What is this thing about sea-
sons?
What should be done only
in winter, or spring, sum-
mer and fall for that mat-
ter?
2. I hate pinching, especially the
ones that hurt. Do I have to pinch
the tips? Cant I cut them?
3. You talk about leaves, how
can those tubular pointing
things be leaves, and do we
treat them the same as other
leaves?
4. I try to pot in the winter. Is itsafe to reduce the root mass at
that time?
5. What kind of soil do you
recommendorganic, non-or-
ganic, akadama only? Does
this depend on the zone (north
Florida vs. south Florida?)
6. How do you balance more
ramication and removing thedense growth out of the junc-
ture of the branches?
7. What kind of fertilizer do you
recommend?
8. When is it safe to remove ma-
jor branches, many branches or
any branches from the tree?
9. When is it best to wire and bend
branches severely, or at all.
10. Many people ask me for help,
often they have several branch-
es that are brown and look dead.
What should be done?
11. I see remarkable jins and shari
on junipers in books. How canyou do that to a tree and keep it
alive? Where do you start, and
what is safe to do?
12. I have several junipers and
cannot keep up with the pinch-
ing and care I use. What do you
recommend I do to keep them
pruned?
Randy asked for any feedback,
so here is your chance to ask
questions or critique what he
wrote. You dont have to give
your name. Randy has tough
skin, you will not hurt his feel-
ings, just tickle his brain to
think about it. Let us know
while the subject is still hot.
Editor
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As already stated, treatment shouldinclude removal of affected tissue,and in the case of phomopsis andcersospora, a copper based fungi-cide, Bordeaux spray, or mancozebcan be used. Tere is no treatmentfor kabatina.
Te good news is that preventionis possible and effective, and thatthese diseases do not have to beplant killers. Tese few rules reallydo make a difference. Remove deadfoliage when noticed. Dont pruneyour plants during the rainy seasonif possible, and not when the foliageis wet. Do not shear your plants.Tis is asking for problems and is
not conducive to attractive or wellstyled plants anyway. Water yourplants earlier rather than later inthe day. Keep the areas surroundingyour plants free of debris.
Closing thoughts
You have more influence on thesurvival and health of your plantsthan any pest or disease will have.Most problems are environmental
meaning you, since you create theenvironment. Water, feeding, place-ment, pruning, soil, and pottingare the most influential factors inyour plants health and are all thingsthat you control. Healthy plants,especially junipers, are very resistantto any attacks by pest and disease.
Learn all there is to know aboutthe plants you grow. We are fortu-
nate to live in an age when there isso much information and data
readily available. All the answers in theworld are available to the inquisitiveand those with a thirst for knowledge.
All major universities have wonder-ful sites that have a wealth of reliableinformation. Shareyour knowledge
with others, and they will share withyou. Tats what clubs are supposed to
be all about.
Speaking of sharing knowledge, Iknow many of you have the talent andknowledge to contribute this to publi-cation and/or your clubs publication.So sit at the keyboard, or get out yourpen, and start writing. So many of youhave so much to share on so manytopics. Many of you could add a tonof wisdom to what I have written, so
get to it! Dont make me start namingnames! I look forward toyourarticles!
As always, I welcome [email protected].
Happy trees!
Te editor thanks Randy Brooks forthis series of remarkable information.If anyone knows otherwise please let
me know. We have over seven majorjuniper pieces at the Morikami col-lection, and I plan to make this seriesrequired reading for all volunteers. Putthis information to practice, see pg. 32for a great juniper raffle.
Do you have special knowledge thatcan be shared with our members andan increasing readership through outthe world, via our web posting? Dont
be intimidated, be generous and share.Editor
> Juniperfrom page 25
GainesvilleBonsai Society
Meeting address:Kanapaha Botanical Gardens in
Gainesville, FLS.W. Archer Road (State Road 24) 1 mile west of Inter-state 75 (exit #384)
BSF Featured Club
Mee ting time and dates:Third Sat urday of the month at9:30 AM.
Club activity photo before turning
the lights on, and after turning the
lights off.
Sorry,nophotosofclub
ac-tivitieswereavailabletotheeditor.
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Try our web site http://www.miamitr opicalbonsai .com
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Call us toll free at 1-800/777-0027
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Fax us any time at 305/258-583.
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> Juniperfrom page 23
apple rust is a disease that requirestwo different hosts to survive. Tedisease lives half of its life on onehost, and is then transmitted to theother. It is then transmitted back,and the cycle continues. One ofthose hosts can be junipers, and the
other one will be a plant from therosaceous family, which includesapple, crab apple, and hawthorn.Te disease is actually worse for thehost from the rosaceous family thanthe juniper. It will create galls on
junipers. If you have hawthorn andjuniper in your collection then youcould technically have the hosts forcedar apple rust to survive, but this
disease should not be a problem forus here in Florida.
Tere are three diseases that doaffect junipers here in Florida. Again,
we are fortunate in that the juniperswe use for bonsai are the most resis-tant to these diseases. Also, healthyplants are much less prone to any ofthese diseases. Te junipers we usethat are most prone will be any of
those with Blue in the name, andany progeny of Rocky Mountain
Juniper, Juniperus scopolorum.
Te first disease is cercosporaneedle blight. Tis disease oftenresembles mite damage except it startson the lower interior foliage near-est the trunk. As it progresses, it willmove up and out on the foliage. Teappearance will be of a tree that only
has foliage at the tips. When the dis-
Lucy Skelley
Email: [email protected]
I am a researcher with a background in
entomology and agronomy.
I have been trying my hand at bonsai for 12years and I have belonged to GBS for 12
years. During that time I have been librar-
ian of the club, and now Secretary.
I have approximately 20 bonsai and many
hopefuls. My favorite style and one to
which I aspire is literati.
I enjoy sharing the process of growing
bonsai with those who are interested in
learning. Im looking forward to being the
host city (with Ocala and Kawa clubs) of
the 2006 Bonsai Convention for our larger bonsai community.
Secretary
Program Chairman
Jerry Beneeld
See his article on the next page.
We all know the program chair-
man makes the club go around,
and keeps members happy.
Convention ChairmanJeff Ketts (No photo)
Email: [email protected]
I am a retired Nurse from the V.A. in
Gainesville and for the past 6 years
I have worked as the School Nurse
Supervisor for Alachua County Schools.
I have been doing bonsai for 25 years. I have belonged to GBS since 1979
and was President from 1988 until about 1995/96. Currently, since mov-
ing and after the storms, I have 10 trees and maybe another 10 in training.
My favorite bonsai right now is the Zelkova that Im restyling.See GBSpage 18 >
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Gainesville Bonsai
Society ActivitiesBy Jerry Beneeld
Program Chairman
GBS members meet monthly at
Kanapaha Botanical Gardens,
where we have been able to
establish a small permanent ex-hibit of bonsai, with the promise
of more space as we are ready.
Club members Lucy Skelley
and Mike Purcell take responsi-
bility for rotating the trees
according to the season
and ensuring they are kept
well watered, fertilized and
cared for.
The monthly meetings
of GBS are planned in
advance. This past year
members have had hands-
on opportunities to see
how to make soil and slabs, as
well as how
to prop-
erly replant
bamboo. (Seepictures) In
addition,
upcoming
meetings
include pest
identication,
plant nutrition, getting plants
ready to show, and how to work
with Lantana. Of course, extra
meetings include how to put on
a convention!
At the February meeting, Presi-
dent Jay Beckenbach took me up
on my offer to serve as the new
Program Chair, by appointing me.
My plan is to poll members to see
what their educational needs are
in learning about, growing, andmaintaining their trees. Some
members are just beginning and
want more basic workshops,
while others are experienced and
are seeking styl-
ing techniques,
wood carving,
and opportunitiesto invite bonsai
Masters to our
club meetings
on a quarterly
basis, if possible.
Once I obtain
the completed member surveys,
I hope to be able to tap into the
Masters schedule offered by BSF
and provide somethingSee Juniperpage 24 >
by a pest or disease. Once a pest findsan appropriate host, it is very easy forit to spread from one plant to the next.Dont place all of your junipers, orbuttonwoods, or black olives, or any-thing else all together. If you do, youmay as well be putting a bulls-eye onyour plants. Te pests will certainlyzero in on them. Dont make it easierfor the bad guys.
Tere are some environmentallyfriendly solutions like ladybugs andpredatory mites; however, they prob-ably arent going to be of much benefitto the hobbyist, and the cost to benefitratio is bound to be lousy, as much asI wish I could recommend them. Ladybugs have a tendency to travel, so even
though they can be of amazing as-sistance against a wide range of pests,once they feel like theyve done their
job, theyre off. Predatory mites maybe a better choice because they willhang around better. And as we alreadyknow, theyll always have victims herein Florida. But, predatory mites will dieoff between infestations so theyll needto be reapplied when mites reappear.
Tere really arent many other peststhat we should have to contend with
when it comes to junipers here inFlorida. Tey can get scale, but Ivenever had a problem with any on juni-pers, and in some areas of the countrybag worms are a problem, but we donthave a problem with them here onthe southern end of the state. Most ofthe junipers we use for bonsai here inFlorida are the most resistant to pestsand diseases. Both Eastern Red Cedar
Juniperus virginiana and any ofthe chinensis varieties are very resis-tant to pests and disease. You will
prob-ablybemoredan-ger-ous toyour
trees thananythingelse they
will face,but if youtake careof their
wateringneedsandaddresspotting/
soil concerns, then your plants willnot have to fear you either.
One final note on junipers andmites when you water your juni-pers, notice the wet foliage. Healthy
foliage will have a nice green color,whereas mite damaged foliage willbe a drab gray color. Te differencereally stands out when the foliage is
wet.
ake two fertilizer pellets and callme in the morning
Junipers arent susceptible to verymany diseases, and since we dontgenerally grow apples or crab apples
the list is even shorter for us. Cedar
Can you fnd the bagworm in the top photo?
Editor fnds them allover, but no resultingdamage. Best camou-age youll ever see.
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spray, be prepared to be doing soconstantly until the mites are undercontrol, and then be prepared tocontinue this regimen when theyrecur. What you are more likely todo is to kill off any beneficial insectsthat would see mites as a nice snack.
oo many people spray way toomuch, and end up killing desirableinsects.
Real miticides are only availableto licensed applicators, so chancesare you wont be able to get them.Miticides are also very, VERY toxic.
You really shouldnt be messing withthem. You should be more worriedabout what miticides can do to you
than what mites may do to yourplants.
Having said that, if you live inFlorida, and you have junipers,then youre going to have bouts
with mites. Just look at some of thecommon host plants of spider mites:azalea, camellia, citrus, silver thorn,hibiscus, ligustrum, pyracantha,rose, viburnum, juniper, arborvitae,
holly, wax myrtle, and croton. Andanother group of mites (the eri-ophyid mites) attacks black olive,podocarpus, boxwood, maple andcitrus, in addition to junipers. Dontyou think that there are more than
just a few of these plants in yourcommunity, or yard, if not in yourcollection? Mites are just a fact oflife for us, and acceptance of thatfact is certainly the first step in deal-ing with them. Tey are never,
ever going to go away unless wecan get some of those crazy people torun around with tons of copier papershaking every plant in sight and thenshipping those reams to some far awayplace like the Moon or Mars, but thenthat wouldnt be very environmentallyfriendly to those other worlds, would
it? We already litter our own planetenough.
So if mites are always going to bearound, how are we to deal with them?
Well, most of you have probably heardof the remedy of hitting your plants
with a jet of water, especially on theunderside of the foliage where themites live. Youve heard it, but do youuse it? A method is only effective to the
degree to which it is carried out. Sincemites are always around, it needs to bepart of your routine to make sure thatyou give your plants a nice shower tokeep them off.
Something else thing you can do isplace your plants properly. You knowthat youre supposed to provide plentyof space between your plants so thatthey receive adequate sunlight and
airflow. Airflow is very important inpreventing many pathogens and pests.
Also, when placing your plants, dontgroup them! Tis may be one of themost important actions you can takein preventing problems. Commercialnurseries have to group their plants alltogether by species and variety becauseotherwise they would have an impos-sible management task. It also explains
why theyhave to spray so much andwhy they can sometimes get wiped out
> Juniperfrom page 7 Welcome to Bonsai
Bridges 2006By Jeffrey Ketts
General Chairman BSF 2006 Conv.Gainesville Bonsai Society
Te Gainesville Bonsai Societyis really proud to be presenting the
2006 Bonsai Convention, BONSAIBRIDGES. When the club mem-bers asked me to chair the conven-tion, it started me thinking backabout our little club.
Te club was born sometime in1973 (that sounds ancient). erryDavis and some of his friends, PaulBurdick, Bud Calderwood, and sev-eral others in the bonsai world, gave
the club its start. I became a mem-ber in 1979 and have seen the club,like most clubs over the years, waxand wane. Te nice thing about ourmembers,though, isthat theyhave neverlost theirvision ofpromoting
what weall love:bonsai andeducatingeverybody we can about it. At a re-cent club meeting we all pored overthe historical album with picturesof where weve been and what wevedone.
In the past thirty plus years, we
have been involved in many shows,
like the Kanapaha Spring GardenShow. My greatest memory aboutthis show is this clubs performance.Different club members trees have
won Best of Show at least threetimes in that show. Te club exhibithas been named Best Display two orthree times and weve won Best Edu-cational Display, I dont know howmany times! Te club membershave always done themselves and thebonsai world proud.
We are now in the middle of put-ting on our 2ndbonsai conventiontogether, our first being in 1997. Ifeel honored to be the chairman ofa group of people that are so goaldirected to make this convention the
best it can possibly be. We have hadour setbacks, with the loss of SteveChapman, our driving force, but
that only seemed tostimulate others toredouble their com-mitment to his andthe clubs commongoal.
I think that these
people have puttogether a great listof Masters and havechosen trees that
no matter what your liking, there isone for you, such as the Powderpuffshown here or the Catlin Elm shownon the next page.
Donations for the raffle table havebeen generously rolling inbut
dont let that stop you. If you have
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something you think people wouldlike to bid on, contact Barbara
Chapman at [email protected] let her know.
Tose of you coming to the con-vention will find Gainesville a greatplace in the spring. Te weather ismild and the hotel has a lake rightbehind it, a nice place to sit and
watch the sun go down and the ga-tors float by.
As General Chairman of Bonsai
Bridges 2006, Id like to say thatwe have a great convention comingreal soon and hope many bonsaienthusiasts will come and enjoy. Ihope everyone takes time to visitthe Kanapaha Botanical Gardensin Gainesville, where our club hasestablished a permanent exhibit. Itis small but is a good start.
Hope to see you at the conven-
tion. And bring a friend.
> GBSfrom page 18
Gainesville Bonsai Society
Activities (Continued)
for everyone in the club. The
club as a whole will approve the
programs, of course.
Our club membership includesmembers of all ages as you can
see from the pictures. It is a
great group of people who are
supportive, enthusiastic and
open to learning everything pos-
sible about bonsai.
>Conventionfrom page 19
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