We invited Tom Vuong to come back in the month of February to be our in-house speaker. He gave such a great lecture the first time we wanted him to repeat the same topic but this time give us (the club members) some hands on time with the master. Tom started with the basic discussion and demonstration of grafting on junipers and black pine. Tom Vuong brought some of his scions to tonight. He confirms that his 2nd/3rd generation shimpaku juniper becomes more and more refined a

Tom Vong spoke today at our Bonsai Club meeting. He taught about three types of grafting. I have researched plenty on the Internet about grafting and I have found a plethora of interesting information. I have read several books on this matter such as The Secret Techniques of Bonsai by Masakuni Kawasumi (father and son), Bonsai Techniques by John Yoshio Naka and many other books that I have found buried on the shelves of public libraries. These books are amazing and and are wr

Tom Vuong was our guest demonstrator for the month of February. Again, I'm totally enthralled with his no nonsense way of doing bonsai. Everything he showed us was down to earth and practical in every way. Tom spent the next two hours talking and more importantly showing us his technique in grafting junipers and black pine. The photo above is the example of what the finished product would look like. Just clean neat cuts and clean and neat bandage job. Tom's scion graft on the

We have the honor of having a relative new bonsai artist at our last bonsai club meeting. Tom is no stranger to the Southern California bonsai culture. I have seen Tom's tree at many different display around for several years. But, Tom is relative new on the demonstration circuit. Tom brought in a Prostrata Juniper for his demonstration of the night. He had this tree for roughly 5-8 years and had been growing it since it was a 1 gallon sapling. He has already been training th

Date: April 28, 2016 Location: Los Angeles Arborteum (Oak Room) Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm Refreshments: Gustavo Duran, Marge Blasingame, Big Joe, and Elaine Jeche Tom Vuong from Orange County will be our star demonstator for the evening. Tom is an avid California Juniper collector and really specilizes in extremely large bonsai specimens! The last I spoke to Tom, he will be working on a juniper species. I hope to see you all at the meeting! Bring a raffle to support the club. #c