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

Break Time! How Peter rolls when a camera is placed in front of him. He such a ham! During the break, Tak was walking around talking to everybody and spied on this San Jose Juniper and got all excited. He ran up to the stage and said, "I'm going to do a demo on this tree!" and the crowd went crazy! So did Greg. He did not think this tree was special at all. After some basic trimming, Tak started to layout the basic layout for the tree starting from branch #1 and moving up the

It felt good to see everybody after our short break during the month of August. September meeting is always been fun, because its gives us time to talk experts on how we should setup our plants for a short second growing season of the year. Fall Season brings reflection of the year in bonsai. It gives us a time to see where our trees have been and gives us a chance plan our next moves for the coming year. It also a time where clubs reflect on the people who really served and

Date: September 24, 2015 Location: Los Angeles Arborteum (Oak Room) Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm Refreshments: Alex Marien, Octavio and Walter Chin, Shirely Quan Tak Shimazu will be our guest workshop leader of the night. He is a resident of the Inland Empire and will be traveling some distance to help us this night. He is a fore most a fine bonsai artist renown for his grafting techniques on evergreen plants. We have not had one of these in awhile. So bring a tree or two to work o

Date: September 24, 2015 Location: Los Angeles Arborteum (Oak Room) Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm Refreshments: Alex Marien, Octavio and Walter Chin, Shirely Quan Tak Shimazu will be our guest workshop leader of the night. He is a resident of the Inland Empire and will be traveling some distance to help us this night. He is a fore most a fine bonsai artist renown for his grafting techniques on evergreen plants. We have not had one of these in awhile. So bring a tree or two to work o