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

During our January meeting we had our usually new member orientation and hands on workshop. Unfortuntly we did not have any new members that joined in the last 5 months so we just had a club workshop with Sensai Lindsay Shiba being the man mentor of the night. Ron E. got his juniper bonsai all wired and ready for the Spring push. Of course, Greg K. is in the background trying to figure out if he wants to attack that tamarisk we collected from last year. Peter playing with his

Sean Smith was our leader our January club meeting. Sean comes from the East Coast and brings a different perspective that what we are used to here in California. Sean has been on a world wind tour of Southern California and we were lucky to pick him up; thank you for Fred M. and Doyle S. for bring his personal tour guide and Uber driver while he was in Southern California. Sean started with a short video of him doing what he does best, wood carving. Sean is a renown daiza an

January 19, 2017 Location: Los Angeles Arboretum (Bamboo Room) Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm Refreshments: Martha Smith, Debbie Shiba, Sherry Quan and Gus Duran We moved our meeting date up to the 3rd Thursday of the Month. Sean Smith from Pennsylvania and is a Master Woodworker and Bonsai Artist. He will be coming into town for a whirlwind tour and we got lucky enough to pick him up. It will be a workshop so please bring a tree and tools for Sean to suggest ideas and help work on.

First meeting of the year is a great time to see everybody again. As a group we just completed our "52nd Winter Silhouette Show" with great success. To continue with that success we meet with all of our new members to cover some of the basics of bonsai and how the club functions. Mary is our leader in that area informing new members about the basics of bonsai. Glad to see some newer members join the ranks of this club. Some of the material and information be passed out that n

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