Gulf Coast Bonsai Expo 

Our post did not show the bonsai workshop schedule very well. The six Bonsai Workshop scheduled as shown below:

 

·         Friday, March 6, 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00

·         Saturday, March 7, 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00

·         Sunday, March 8, 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00

 

These bonsai workshops will be conducted so observers can view them like a bonsai lecture demonstration.  Enrique Castano is a world class bonsai expert teacher that can show you how to improve and care for your very best bonsai, or show you the best way to start a bonsai.  His profession is a biology research scientist and teacher.  This is something you don't want to miss.

  

 

24th Baton Rouge Spring Sale 

and 

Gulf Coast Bonsai Expo

March 6, 7, and 8, LSU is holding the 24th Baton Rouge Spring Sale at the LSU Parker Coliseum to raise money for scholarships, etc. and to give the regional nurseries and non-profit organizations an opportunity to introduce special plants and promote their business     

The Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation and Louisiana Bonsai Society has been participating for years to promote the bonsai hobby.  This year the Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation is going a step further by holding the first annual Gulf Coast Bonsai Expo in conjunction with the plant sale and garden show

Annual Gulf Coast Bonsai Expo

Featuring Enrique Castano

 Bonsai Exhibit/Show – each Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation member can enter one bonsai to be

displayed. To put a bonsai in the display, you must be a current member of the Gulf Coast

Bonsai Foundation and send a picture of the bonsai to be displayed to lowelltilley@gmail.com by

March 2. The display limit is 12 of the best bonsai. There will be three $100 prizes will be

awarded. Enrique Castano will be one of the judges and critique the exhibit.

 Bonsai Bring Your Own Tree Workshops conducted by Enrique Castano. Enrique is a world class bonsai teacher Limit of eight per bonsai for each workshop to be conducted in bonsai lecture demo style. Cost is $50 for Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation members and $75 for non-members. Bonsai Workshop schedule is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00

Raffle tickets for five bonsai go on sale. The raffle is called "Five Draw Bonsai Raffle"

featuring five high-quality trees. We will sell exactly 100 tickets at $100 each,  Each ticket remains eligible for all five drawings, as winners are returned to the

hopper to maintain a 1 in 100 chance for every draw. To ensure transparency, we will use

numbered balls instead of paper tickets for the drawing. Groups of up to five people may also

split the cost of a single ticket. The drawing will take place during the Gulf Coast Bonsai Fall

Bonsai Sale in October or November.

The bonsai in the raffle are shown below:

The drawing will take place during the Gulf Coast Bonsai Fall

Bonsai Sale in October or November.

DRAW FIVE BONSAI RAFFLE BONSAI

 1 – Trident maple about 50 years old            

  2 – Boxwood, collected from a 77 year old Neigh-hood about 30 years ago

3 – Pastrata Juniper, came from a nursery about 20-25 years ago

4 – Boxwood, collected from a 77 year old neigh hood about 30 years ag

5 – Hackberry, collected about 30 years ago

 
 

 The first annual Gulf Coast Bonsai is open anyone to sell their bonsai material.  If you would like to put something in the sale, please a picture to lowelltilley@gmail.com.  These picture of some trees that will be for sale:

Gulf Coast Bonsai Fall Bonsai / Plant Sale

 

The first Gulf Coast Bonsai Fall Bonsai Sale will be Saturday, November 1, 10:00 to 3:00, at the River Oaks Baptist Church, 14959 Old Hammond Hwy, Baton Rouge, LA 70816.  It will be to sell or buy any bonsai plants, equipment, supplies, tools, etc.  To assist members in developing their own private collection and support the Gulf Coast Bonsai public displays of bonsai.  

Several members have Gulf Coast Bonsai plants they are developing and caring for.  Most of the plants were worth very little when they started developing them, so they can purchase them for their own collection, bring them to the sale, or put them into the public display.  They name their own purchase price to purchase them for their own collection.  In some cases, they may want to continue developing them longer so they will sell for more or look better on the display.

Like most plant sales in Baton Rouge, each seller will have a table or share table and will manage his own sales giving 10% of the gross to the Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation.  The Gulf Coast Bonsai will have a table manned by volunteers.  The tables will be covered by nice looking plastic covers to protect the tables.  We want to attract and assist as many bonsai enthusiasts as possible, so we have invited Byron Myrick, Dennis Burke, Bill Butler, and Underhill Bonsai to sell bonsai tools and accessories.  Underhill Bonsai said they don't have enough staff to participate.  Each seller will set his own price and sometimes it is difficult to find a price that will sell and compensate the seller enough.  Developing bonsai is a lot of work and fun and it is not easy to determine the exact amount of work and the amount of fun it was.  So how much should I sell the bonsai for?  I plan to set prices on some things, and some things will have a price or best offer.  In other words, negotiating on prices is acceptable.

We would like to say how much we appreciate the members who are taking care of Gulf Coast Bonsai plants and you can purchase any of them for your own collections for the price you decide. Please send descriptions of each to John Nackley, jnackley@gmail.com, who is working on the inventory. 

Please send a picture and description of anything you plan to bring to the sale to Wyler Murray who is creating a catalog to help bring more people to the sale.  Also please send us any comments, questions, and suggestions.  We need your input and will have another planning committee meeting soon.  

Please contact us if you have any suggestions or questions.

Midwinter Repotting Bonsai Workshop

Conducted by Jennifer Price

Jan. 16, 1:00 to 4:00

Jan. 17, 8:00 to 11:00

These unique bonsai hands-on workshops/seminars have been designed by Jennifer Price to teach techniques for root pruning and repotting bonsai.  Jennifer will be instructing and directing the repotting of the bonsai on display at the LSU Rural Life Museum Gardens by the Gulf Coast Bonsai Federation.  This is a great opportunity to work on old bonsai with expert directions in a one on one environment

Jennifer will start with an instructive lecture then divide participants into teams of two or more.  Jennifer has asked other experts to help in repotting assistance to provide more one on one guidance.

Gulf Coast Bonsai will supply all the bonsai soil, cleaning solutions, wire, screen and the pots to be used.

  Participants need to bring their own bonsai repotting tools.

The workshops are free for Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation members, or $30 each day for non membership to participate or to observe. 

Participants can join GCBF anytime prior to the workshop with payment of the annual dues of $30 to Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation.

Either register for the workshops or to join the GCBF with a check payable to:

Gulf Coast Bonsai Foundation, 520 Laurie Lynn Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70819.

We will be working on the bonsai collection at the Rural Life Museum Gardens at the LSU Burden Museums and Gardens, 4560 Essen Lane.  We are out there to work on the collection every Thursday morning, 10:00 to 12:00, except the last Thursday of each month, and there to work on them the last Saturday of each month.  I would like to thank all the Louisiana Bonsai Society club members that have been helping and invite all members to come out and help when they can.  This is a great learning experience.    

Thanks,

Lowell Tilley

lowelltilley@gmail.com

 

You are invited Jan. 21, 22, and 23 to attend the Louisiana Bonsai Society Annual Midwinter Bonsai Workshop Conference featuring world class bonsai artists and four bonsai vendors selling bonsai supplies.  This year we have two special workshops offered by vendors list below.

Bonsai Workshop by Dana Quattlebaum Special Workshop--Group planting of five Kingsville boxwoods (8- to 15-year-old true Kingsville boxwoods, not dwarf Saunders) on a slab for $150 limited to six (6) people.  The boxwoods are worth more than $150, this is a $300 or more workshop.

Special Bonsai Workshop by Evan Pardue   Evan will be providing Black Pines grown from seed and ready for repotting. He will focus on how to repot young JBP and how to grow for future bonsai. Materials provided will include the tree, soil, and training pot. Fee is $125, limited to 4 participants.

Call 225-241-2396 to reserve a slot, then send a check payable to LBS to Lowell Tilley, 520 Laurie Lynn Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70819.