As the stunt double for Travis Goldstein, Michael Jonas was gracious enough to help fill in Travis's role for the month of May. Michael gave all of us at the meeting first hand knowledge working on Retusa Ficus. Not, a ficus that I'm familiar with so lets go over what we have learned that night. That monster of a ficus next to Michael was the demo tree for the night. The tree is a multipe trunk with 5 very straight trunks connected nicely at the base. While, there was not muc

We were graced with Tak Shimazu at our last club meeting. Tak always brings a down to Earth sense of conversation and telling everything as it is. At this meeting he transformed a rough stock Itoigawa Juniper with little or no bottom branches into a pretty good looking tree by the end of the night. He said, "Anybody can do this if they have the vision to look beyond what is wrong with the tree." As you can see from above there are no low branches at all. The lowest branch is

Its not everyday that I get to report on a club member presenting at another club. Well, this time I actually got an opportunity to just that! Lindsay was the guest demonstrator at this weekend's Kofukai meeting in Orange County. He presented to Kofukai on an relatively newer cedar species (Leland Cedar). But it will produce golden leaf color if set in full sun and has great cryptomeria like leaf structure. I must say it was unique and had me guessing until I discussed this s