Yama Ki NewsletterYama Ki Newsletter Aug 2013 Hi All, I’m sure you are all are weeding and tending...
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Yama Ki Newsletter Aug 2013 Hi All, I’m sure you are all are weeding and tending to your bonsai and newest auction additions, so let’s keep this issue short. For the August 14 th Queens meeting - bring your own tree for a critique and discussion. Another tidbit of news – Pete Halm will be issuing his newly revamped website soon! Enjoy these days of summer, Joan Highlights BBQ/Auction Page 2 MABS Presentation #3 Page 4 4H Exhibit Page 6 Yama Ki Calendar Page 7 Resources/friends Board Members Page 8 2013 © Yama Ki Bonsai Society Inc. 2013 For The Love of Bonsai The American Bonsai Society & Mid-Hudson Bonsai Society Saratoga Springs, NY September 12-15 www.loveofbonsai.com OCTOBER REFORGED & REFINED POSTPONED UNTIL SEPT 2015 Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Hosted by Ryan Neil www.artisanscupofportland.com Other Bonsai Events 1
Transcript of Yama Ki NewsletterYama Ki Newsletter Aug 2013 Hi All, I’m sure you are all are weeding and tending...
Yama Ki Newsletter Aug 2013
Hi All,
I’m sure you are all are weeding and tending to your bonsai and newest auction additions, so let’s keep this issue short.
For the August 14th Queens meeting - bring your own tree for a critique and discussion.
Another tidbit of news – Pete Halm will be issuing his newly revamped website soon!
Enjoy these days of summer,
Joan
Highlights BBQ/Auction Page 2
MABS Presentation #3 Page 4
4H Exhibit Page 6
Yama Ki Calendar Page 7
Resources/friends
Board Members Page 8
2013 © Yama Ki Bonsai Society Inc.
2013
For The Love of Bonsai
The American Bonsai Society & Mid-Hudson Bonsai Society
Saratoga Springs, NY
September 12-15
www.loveofbonsai.com
OCTOBER
REFORGED & REFINED
POSTPONED UNTIL SEPT 2015
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Hosted by Ryan Neil
www.artisanscupofportland.com
Other Bonsai Events
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Annual Picnic and Auction – Photos Pictures by Dave Castro
We all had a super afternoon at Jim & Sharon’s home again this year…thank you so much!
Jim’s famous ribs and great deals were the focus of the day. Thanks to all who helped, and of course, kudos to the auctioneers – Mike and Pete, and to Layne for keeping track of it all! $1700.00 was raised for the club.
As you can see with Jim, not all things were for sale!
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Marty’s Second Workshop
Event Photos
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MABS – PRESENTATION NOTES
The third in a series of three articles by Lavanya Muller.
Professional Presentations at MABS 30th Anniversary: Minoru Akiyama’s Juniper Preliminary comments
Bonsai changes and adapts with each culture that adopts it. American bonsai artists have adapted the Japanese art form in very interesting ways. I can see differences in the styles in an overall sense. The Japanese ways of doing things are changing as the world modernizes, especially the aesthetics of displaying objects of beauty or value.
I apprenticed at Shunka-en, with bonsai master Kuniyo Kobayashi. Bonsai apprentices learn how to develop relationships with clients, customers, fellow apprentices, and the Master, as well as with trees, pots, stands, tools, etc.
When exploring bonsai as an art, you have to consider plant placement in the pot. The bonsai pot is a very important aspect of the art as a whole. In a garden or in nature, a tree is part of a landscape, whereas in bonsai you are trying to express or suggest the landscape with one tree and its pot. Bonsai is a tree growing in a pot, with the whole imbued by the spirit of the bonsai artist.
When you are looking at a piece of bonsai material, before starting any work, consider all of the following:
• The personality of the species in general
• The personality of the particular cultivar
• The personality of this particular tree
• Horticultural aspects of the tree
• Cultivation (water and fertilizer needed)
• Environment (sun, wind, temperature, etc.)
• Overall health of the specimen you are about to work with
• Where this kind of tree grows naturally in the wild (keep this image in mind)
• Balance - meaning the length and thickness of the branches, trunk and nebari, the size, shape, color, and style of the pot, and the overall composition
Healthy trees resist fungal infections well, but are very delicious to insects, so they are more likely to be attacked. You have to be careful to keep a close eye on your healthy trees too! It is important not to work on trees when they are not healthy.
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Commentary while work on the juniper was in progress
With a twin-trunk tree it is important to figure out the relationship between the two trunks.
Akiyama first brushed the bark with a wire brush to see where the live and dead wood are, and whether there are insects infesting the inner bark. Leaving the old, flaky bark emphasizes the age of the tree, but cleaned-up bark is healthier for the tree and shows the contrast between live and dead wood better.
He sprays his trees with insecticide once a month from April through November.
Final comments after completing his work:
Akiyama created strong movement in the main pointing branch, and created a compact apex. The composition of the whole tree gives the feeling of a strong wind blowing. He kept a large open space in the middle to create a sense of depth.
To create a large-looking image in a small tree, remove larger branches and keep smaller, slender branches.
When the tree is potted, Akiyama suggested a somewhat deep hexagonal pot to give sufficient room to the roots and to allow a lot of negative space under the lowest branch.
• Unglazed pots are considered the most formal. They have calmness, strength, stability, and power.
• Pot shapes also have levels of formality. The highest level is an outward curving rectangle.
• Trees have different levels of formality as well. Pines are considered the most formal, then other conifers, then deciduous trees, and most informal are flowering trees.
• Replicating the shapes and movement of the tree itself in the design of the pot diminishes the visual effect of those features in the tree.
• The pot can add character and/or change the feeling of the composition.
If you plant a juniper in a somewhat small pot and leave it there for a few years, when the tree becomes potbound, the foliage will tend to become mature. The tree needs to be healthy but not growing robustly in order to stop producing juvenile foliage.
CONGRATULATIONS to Yama Ki member Rima, who won this tree in the raffle (or did she win Ryan Neil's second tree? We should check, but when I called the number I have for Rima, someone named Ella answers.)
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4H – Yama Ki Display, NY
Yama Ki Bonsai Society displays at the 4-H Club Fair in Carmel, NY
A small bonsai display (one 8-foot table) was part of the annual Putnam County 4-H Fair for the first time this July 27 & 28. Our little table was at the very front of the Explore Putnam County tent, and got a steady flow of viewers during the two days that the fair was open to the general public.
Norm and Bernie came on Saturday with trees to add to the table, and to help Charlie and Lavanya with the job of answering questions from the curious. The organizers of the fair told us that more than 20,000 people attended this year, as the weather was excellent both days. (We are sure they were counting babies and young children, and we suspect they were also counting babies in utero to get that number!) Here’s hoping we can do a slightly larger exhibit next year, and not let the American Legion overshadow us with their giant banner!
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Yama Ki Activities 2013-2014
AUGUST Yama Ki Meeting at the Connecticut GEC on Sunday
Sunday, August 11th, 12-4
John Cotoggio on Bonsai Soil & Fertilizer
The Queens, New York Chapter meeting August 14th Wednesday
The meeting of the Queens, New York Chapter
43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355 www.queensbotanical.org
Bring your own tree for a critique and discussion
August 18th 10:00 AM Board Meeting At Layne Rodney’s house, RSVP to Gail
SEPTEMBER
Yama Ki Meeting at the Connecticut GEC on Sunday September 29th
From 12-4 Workshop #3
w/ Marty Schmalenberg The final session to work your tree with Marty
OCTOBER
Yama Ki Meeting at the CT GEC October 13th
Yama Ki is proud to host a day with John Romano
Demo: Styling a Shohin Colorado Blue Spruce
NOVEMBER Yama Ki Meeting at the CT GEC
November 17th From 12-4
John Cotoggio Wintering Bonsai Trees
DECEMBER
Yama Ki Holiday Auction & Party at the CT GEC
December 14th From 12-5
JANUARY 2014
No meeting
FEBRUARY 2014 Yama Ki Meeting at Mike Pollocks Studio
February 22nd From 12-5
Colin Lewis Workshop: Working Deciduous Trees
MARCH 2014
Yama Ki Meeting at the Connecticut GEC March 22nd
From 12-4 Peter Keane
Demo: Grafting
APRIL 2014 Yama Ki Meeting at the Connecticut GEC
February 22nd From 12-4
Young Choe Workshop: "Root ball" Kusamono
MAY 2014
Yama Ki Meeting at the Connecticut GEC May 10th From 12-5
Mike Pollock Demo: Styling a Procumben Juniper
JUNE 2014
Yama Ki Meeting To be determined
JULY 2014
Summer BBQ & Auction To be determined
This service is free to Yama Ki members in good standing, but please remember it is for bonsai and related items only. Buyer and seller will make arrangements for payment and delivery.
Please submit your classified info and pictures to Lavanya Muller ([email protected]) by the 7th of the month for inclusion in the next month’s newsletter.
Classifieds
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COMMITTEE CHAIRS Yama Ki Newsletter Editor Joan Thomas, Sandy Hook CT [email protected]
Showsite Coordinator Layne Rodney, Stamford CT [email protected]
Program Director Mark Toepke, Bedford Hills, NY [email protected]
Webmaster Pete Halm, Stamford CT [email protected] For updates and the latest information - check your email or our website: www.yamakibonsai.org
OFFICERS John Cotoggio, [email protected] Layne Rodney, [email protected] Gail Therrien, [email protected] Mike Pollock, [email protected] Pres.
DIRECTORS Al DeAngelis, [email protected] Rima Chatterjee, [email protected] Layne Rodney, [email protected] Pete Halm, [email protected] Nick Sajda, [email protected] Jim Glatthaar, [email protected]
Resources and Friends
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