The Christmas holiday season always has a special place in my heart. Not only that everybody decorate to make their homes all festive. But, its the time of year where we all get together to reflect on the year we spend as a collective group. As tradition, the Shiba's hosted the event at their residence. Living in Lytle Creek has its perks especially, this time of year. It is a location where the season's change and you are actually in a forest like environment. To add a festi

This month's meeting we did not have a demonstrator per say but we had Lindsay Shiba run a club workshop instead. Its great having different speakers each month, but its also refreshing to be able to work on our trees with the eyes and skills of Lindsay and other members within our club. Lindsay still gave us a short talk about ramifcation of foilage and the importance of fertilizing on a monthly bases. Here is a group shot before everybody got down to business working on the

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