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ON THE A distant mountain suiseki reminiscent of Mount Fuji.COVER: Suiseki displayed at the GSBF 2010 exhibit in California.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENTC H A R L E S M I C H E L S O N

A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORM I K E S U L L I V A N

CHOOSING THE RIGHT POT FOR YOUR BONSAIH A R R Y H A R R I N G T O N A N D V I C H A R R I S

SUISEKI, A PERSONAL ARTS E A N S M I T H

TROPICAL BONSAI SCHOOL, YEAR TWOA R T U R O C I D

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is the offi cial publication of the Bonsai Societies of Florida. It is pub-lished quarterly, in February, May, August and November, and is provided to every current mem-ber. If you are not a Florida resi-dent and would like to subscribe to please see the subscription form on page 44.

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P A G E 2 F L O R I D A B O N S A I W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 P A G E 3

t’s hard to believe that I have been President and this board has been in offi ce for the past three and a half years. When we

started, we had a vision of the type of BSF organization we wanted to create and how to differentiate ourselves from other societ-ies around the country.

Over time, we identifi ed the core values of BSF by planning for quality. Quality speakers, qual-ity conventions, quality exhib-its, quality experiences, quality management would defi ne BSF; how we function and what would become our reputation.

Over the years we have faced many challenges and had many opportuni-ties which have concerned us and stretched us; we are the better for it. People have come and gone, there are new ways of doing business, new ways of communicating, chang-ing relationships have tested us and again, we are the better for it. No matter the situation, we

have always pursued a path that refl ected the best interests of BSF and the people who are members of our organization.

The new slate of offi cers for next year is online. Change is good and I believe we have a group of new board leaders who are capable and quality-oriented people who will continue to work towards the best interests of BSF. The strength

of the new board demonstrates the depth of ability which exists within BSF for our continued suc-cess in the future. I will support them to the fullest of my ability.

A Message from the Presidenu

Before I get ahead of myself, the work of this board is not complete and we are hard at work plan-ning the next convention. A new hotel, some favorite speakers, an outstanding exhibit and even club night – back again by popular demand. The 2013 convention is an event we will be proud of and I hope you will be excited about. Please review the information and program printed elsewhere in this magazine.

I hope all of the clubs are tak-ing advantage of our speaker’s tours. We have excellent speakers on tour this year for your enjoy-ment. The speaker information is online on the BSF website and you have been receiving e-mail blasts as well to advertise their schedules. The speaker

tour has now added a Florida art-ist to our out-of-state line-up of artists, so please take advantage of our wonderful home-grown tal-ents as you make your plans. The speaker process has been stream-lined and simplifi ed, so everyone can enjoy the bonsai knowledge and personalities of these tal-ented guests to Florida.

Be sure to plan ahead to the Memorial Day Bonsai Societies of Florida Convention to join us at this premier BSF event and party. Thank you for the privilege of being President of BSF.

Now, if I could only get someone to weed for me , every- thing would be perfect!


nother year! Can you believe that we are wrapping up an amazing year of bonsai? For me it has been quite a wonderful year of good friends, great events and lots of bonsai travel.

We hope you enjoy this Winter issue of Florida Bonsai. We start with an extensive article on bon-sai pots and guidelines for the selection process. We’d like to thank the generosity of two gen-tlemen from Great Britain – Vic Harris of Erin Pottery and Harry Harrington, bonsai artist and teachers, for allowing us to pub-lish their thoughts for our readers.

Next, we have a wonderful per-sonal article by suiseki and bonsai artist, Sean Smith. This indepth look at suiseki selection and exhi-bition gives the reader an insight into the intimacy of display.

Finally, we have Arturo Cid’s fol-low up article on Pedro Morales’ Bonsai Tropical School which

follows his progress through the second year of bonsai training. Art’s explanation of the daily schedule is very interesting read-ing. We’re sure you will fi nd it informative.

Well, I’m trying to get this issue to press before the end of the Mayan calendar. Hopefully everyone will be able to enjoy it, before we reach the end.

The board of direc-tors is currently busy working on our upcoming convention in Orlando. You can fi nd the regis-tration forms in the center of the magazine. You will notice that we have had a change in venue to the Marriott Lake Mary, located just north of Orlando. We will be situated this year in a tower hotel.

It will be a nice change from the spread-out resort style of the past several year’s conventions.

The hotel will be all ours for the duration of our event. We look forward to this more intimate set-ting for our annual gathering.

Our speakers this year will be a Florida’s favorite – Suthin Sukosolvisit, who will be present-ing several workshops and dem-onstrations, as well as exhibit and club night critiques. In addition, we will be having Sean Smith, who will be conducting some-thing unique and different for our attendees – a scroll-making and kiri bako workshop, giving every-one a chance to make their own scrolls and storage boxes.

Finally, we will be having Michael Feduccia presenting several demonstrations and workshops. Michael continues his studies with his sensei, Ryan Neil, and is producing some of the fi nest bon-sai in the state. Be sure to sign up early for his workshops, they will sell out fast.

Our demonstrations and work-shops will present a variety of material from our native Buttonwoods and Bald Cypress to Shohin Ficus and Shimpaku.

If you were reading closely, you would have seen that our Club Night event has been reinstated. So please talk to your club and get them interested. Without par-ticipation this event cannot take place. It is always one of the most fun nights at the convention with lots of camaraderie and friendly competition.

On a somber note, we need to acknowledge the passing of BSF Past President Ed Trout’s granddaughter, Chelsey, after her valient fi ght. Our hearts and thoughts are with Ed, Tina, Debbie and family.

After refl ecting on the events of the past year, we would like to take this time to wish all of our bonsai friends and family a very happy and healthy holiday season and new year.

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A Message from the Editor


he literal meaning of bonsai is ‘plant in a tray’. While the tree itself contributes to one half of the composition,

the pot completes the overall image. The ‘bonsai’ in it’s literal sense is judged by the visual impact of both the tree and the pot. Unfortunately, choosing and locating the correct, or the best, pot to plant your tree into is not easy. While a well-chosen pot will enhance a bonsai and strengthen a design, a poorly chosen or unsuit-able design can actually lessen the impact of the tree. Ultimately, until the ‘right’ pot is found, the tree will never reach it’s full potential as a bonsai.

A pot can be an expensive invest-ment for your bonsai; buying an unsuitable pot for your tree can mean having to fi nd a more suit-able pot in the future. Finding the right pot, the fi rst time, is not only satisfying but saves money and helps avoid ending up with a pile of pots that don’t quite seem to suit any of your trees!

This article is written to help the enthusiast understand how to go about choosing the correct pot for their tree. My express thanks go to Vic Harris of Erin Bonsai for his help in writing this guide and for providing images of some his pots to illustrate this article.

SELECTING THE RIGHT POT

Choosing the best pot for a par-ticular tree is not easy. As well as the more mundane factory-made Chinese and Korean pots, there are a number of bonsai potters and potteries throughout the world that are able to offer indi-vidual and diverse pot designs and glazes to the enthusiast. There are so many available colors, sizes and designs that it can become very diffi cult to identify exactly which one(s) are best for your tree. Pot choice is also subjective, ultimately some of the fi nal deci-sion will be made according to your own personal tastes. Some

Choosing the Right Pot for Your Bonsai

enthusiasts prefer more conser-vative pot shapes, textures and glazes, other enthusiasts prefer to make more unusual ‘individual’ choices. In an effort to help choose the correct ‘type’ of pot for your tree I have asked Vic Harris to help me draw up some basic guidelines when choosing a new pot for your tree. To arrive at a good decision, it is useful to break down the choices into four parts: 1. Pot Dimension, 2. Pot Shape, 3. Pot Color and 4. Pot Texture.

1: POT DIMENSIONS

The fi rst thing to consider is the size of the pot that you will need. The correct pot dimensions can be achieved using some basic rules according to the dimensions of the tree itself.

The general rule of thumb is that the pot’s depth should be equal to the diameter of the trunk just above soil level. For oval or rect-angular pots, the length of the pot should be 2/3 the height of the tree. For round pots, the diam-eter of the pot should be 1/3 the

height of the tree. For trees with especially wide canopies a wider pot can be necessary and this can be compensated by using a slightly shallower pot. As equally, a tree with a very thick trunk (in comparison with the height of the tree) may suit a slightly deeper but narrower pot.

It should be remembered that these guidelines are based on aesthetics only. For horticultural reasons, some tree species require larger or smaller pots. Species with very fast growing roots such as Trident Maples often require deeper pots while fl owering and fruiting species such as Crab Apples require more root run and therefore deeper pots.

2: POT SHAPE

The style of pot that you choose will need to harmonize with the tree. You need to take a look at your tree and evaluate its charac-teristics. Try to decide whether your tree is masculine or feminine. Many trees are a combination of both although usually one is more

By Harry Harrington with Vic Harris

P A G E 1 6 F L O R I D A B O N S A I W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 P A G E 1 7

Suiseki, A Personal Art

everal months ago in Japan I was viewing a suiseki displayed in a tokonoma; it was your typical formal display with table, accent planting and a scroll. It was explained to me as a distant mountain stone, the scroll showed a few birds that migrate at this time of year in Japan, and the accent plant was a plant that grows in the bogs below the mountain.

It was wonderful display, so I thought. It was very elegantly executed and I was very grateful for the time and effort that this person took to prepare this dis-play for me. Then I scratched my head and thought to myself, “Do I really understand what this dis-play really means?” Then it came to me, “Why should it?!” This is not my suiseki, not my display. This was created by one man’s thoughts and what each element means to him. Obviously, it was wonderful and meaningful.

Why is it that the western approach is always to point out the negative and not the positive? I came away feeling badly, hav-ing only focusing on me! I should have asked many questions about the suiseki and the display, and

what his approach was about the stone. That way we both could have shared our feelings of the display.

For me suiseki should invoke a feeling, almost like a personal relationship so to speak, a sensa-tion that gives me pleasure or sadness, something that stirs my heart, a recollection of event whether it be good or bad. Suiseki should have an importance to the enthusiast in some way, a connec-tion that gives an emotional feel-ing. Even when one purchases a suiseki from a reputable dealer, it should move that person in some way.

Quality is of the utmost impor-tance; never say it’s good enough. Always look for quality.

By Sean Smith

Stones of high quality, either pur-chased or found, have the ability to move a person; they are of high aesthetic and emotional value. For me, a quality stone is one that in a sense is perfect, without blemishes, cracks or chips; it’s the quality of the suiseki, not the

quantity that counts. This recalls the story from Japan that you will only fi nd three suiseki in your lifetime. This art is very diffi cult, not only is fi nding good, high-quality suiseki hard, but then there is the challenge to display them properly.

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e re

gist

ratio

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ge 2

for a

vaila

bilit

y. Pa

rtic

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t mus

t be

regi

ster

ed fo

r the

conv

entio

n to

par

ticip

ate.

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iori

ty fo

r the

wor

ksho

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ill b

e al

loca

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acco

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pos

tmar

k. F

ull r

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ts w

ill h

ave

prio

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r dai

ly re

gist

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uld

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thei

r pre

fere

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l wor

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ou m

ay se

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ithin

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ram

e; ju

st re

mem

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cces

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to w

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ps th

ey ar

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if th

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ishes

to ca

ncel

that

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nly a

fter t

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sai S

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e bo

nsai

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her

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y ass

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ains

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e, or

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ch th

e pro

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lorid

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he W

orks

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or in

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, the

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ksho

p or

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actio

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the

othe

r par

ticip

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ease

and

shal

l ind

emni

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e Bo

nsai

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s of F

lori

da an

d th

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orks

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r pa

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nder

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at th

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rele

ase

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abili

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cont

ract

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BS

F 2

013

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F 2

013


ast year before Pedro Morales’ Tropical Bonsai School began, I lost a good Bonsai friend, Bud Shafer. Bud died unexpectedly, and it was a great shock to his friends and family as well as the Bonsai community. Everyone who knew him misses him.

This year two weeks before the School started my mother had a cerebrovascular accident and died after being in coma for four days. This again was a great shock and a painful experience.

In a way this school has not only been instructive and very inspiring but to me has been a place were I can recuperate from a stressful situation. Eric and Andrea are such great hosts that you feel you are among friends.

This year I did not have to rent a cargo van since all my trees fi t into my Honda Odyssey, which I recently purchased and now call my Bonsai Mobile.

After the short trip to the nurs-ery, I unloaded my trees and checked in at the hotel eager to start the next day.

The second year TBS material to be discussed in detail included the following: fi rst meeting – Bunjin style and Escambron; second meeting – Shohin, Mame and Neea; third meeting – Bonsai Design, Portulacaria afra; fourth meeting – Forest plantings, Penjing and Muleta; fi fth meet-ing – Driftwood, Tanuki or Phoenix graft and Bucida spinosa and last meeting, Rock planting and the Final Exam.

DAY ONE

Day one starts with Pedro’s ‘Tip of the Day’. Rusty tools can be cleaned by immersing them in a pitcher of water, adding 2 Alka Seltzer® tablets and leaving them in the solution for 24 hours.

The fi rst lecture was on Bunjin (Men of Books) or Literati style. It is really a Chinese style inspired by viewing mountains with slender trees. It is charac-teristically a slender tree with movement and the foliage in the upper third and usually potted in a round pot or equal sided hex-agonal or square pot. Other char-acteristics are good tapering of trunk and the canopy not wider than the pot.

This style truly describes the vision of nature and some describe the style as abstract while others call it modern.

Many species can be styled Bunjin. Examples of some are Ficus nerifolia, Premna, Gumbo Limbo, Gmelina, Escambron, Neea, Buttonwood, Brazilian

Raintree, Fukian Tea, Bald Cypress and Bucida spinosa.

Each day we cover a different tree as well as see many slides. Some slides depict a chronological pictorial of trees from the great Bonsai Masters.

Today’s tree was Escambron, Clerodendrum aculeatum. It comes from the Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, and Hawaii, has a woody trunk and very attrac-tive thick corky bark. It grows as tall as 8–12 feet high, has thorns at the base of the petiole, white fl owers and opposite leaves.

For fast ramifi cation, prune it weekly, as it is a fast growing tree. The wood is fi brous and will rot if not treated with lime sulfur.

ast yea

ndd ff imill

Tropical Bonsai School, Year Two

By Arturo Cid


Cover, Pages 10, 17, 27, 28, 40 – Mike Sullivan; Page 2 – Charles Michelson;

Page 4 – Louise Leister; Pages 11, 13, 15 – Vic Harris; , 13 – Harry Harrington;

Page 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38 – Arturo Cid.

Photo and Illustration Credits

Florida Bonsai Publications

A black and white printed version of the magazine is provided to members of the Bonsai Societies of

Florida. A sampling is also available to the public in full-color by down loading from the BSF website:

http://www.bonsai-bsf.com/magazine/

The full-color screen version of the publication is in “pdf” format. Be sure you have the most current

version of Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader software is free and available at www.adobe.com.

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A Very Special Holiday Greeting

from Omiya, Japan

from Louise and Mike

Yes, We Finally Made It!

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BSF Membership

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memberships include: Member-At-Large, Member Organization-At-Large, Donor

Membership, or Special Life Membership.

For membership information contact: Gail Santini, Membership Chair,

8855 Lake Park Circle S, Davie, Florida 33328-7013 Email: [email protected]

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Bonsai and Things Shibui PAGE 42

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Bonsai Societies of Florida

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT Charles Michelson [email protected]

1ST VICE PRESIDENT Ben Liss fi [email protected]

2ND VICE PRESIDENT Dorothy Schmitz [email protected]

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY VACANT [email protected]

RECORDING SECRETARY Carol McKinney [email protected]

TREASURER Barbara Poglitsch [email protected]

PAST PRESIDENT Louise Leister [email protected]

COMMITTEES

CONVENTION 2012 BSF / BODpresident@bonsai-bsfcom

EDUCATION Louise [email protected]

EPCOT/BSF Paul [email protected]

MEMBERSHIP Gail [email protected]

PUBLICATIONS Mike [email protected]

ADVERTISING Louise [email protected]

SPEAKERS BUREAU David [email protected]

WEBSITE Paul [email protected]

TRUSTEES

DISTRICT 1 Rosemarie Voelker [email protected]

DISTRICT 2 Jane Ziolkowski [email protected]

DISTRICT 3 Linda [email protected]

DISTRICT 4 Ronn [email protected]

DISTRICT 5 Sally Molsick [email protected]

DISTRICT 6 Rita Rosenberg [email protected]

DISTRICT 7 Michael [email protected]

DISTRICT 8 Arturo [email protected]

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plete the fo l lowing form. For internat iona l subscr ibers , p lease send info requests

to publ i cat ions@bonsa i-bsf . com ( the cost wi l l be $20 p lus appl i cab le postage) .

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TELEPHONE NUMBER

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AFFILIATION

DATE

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