Louisiana Bonsai Society

Bonsai Meeting Tuesday 7:00 PM, March 21, at the Baton Rouge Garden Center, 7950 Independence Blvd 

The next LBS meeting will be Tuesday, March 21, 7:00 PM, at the Baton Rouge Garden Center, 7950 Independence Blvd.  The program will presented by Zach Smith, owner of Bonsai South, https://bonsai-south.com/ .   It will be about collecting, potting, and developing bonsai with collected plant material.  He is a well-known bonsai expert with years of experience developing bonsai with collected material.

Please bring some of your bonsai to the next meeting for show and tell. The group will give suggestions to improve your bonsai. Bring bonsai you are having problems with, and bring some that are doing well also. It is good to learn from mistakes, and I have plenty you can learn from. Show and tell is always an interesting part of meeting.  Also bring a friend or neighbor, quests are always welcome.

This Friday, March 10, 7:00 PM, is the Greater New Orleans Bonsai Society (GNOBS) March meeting and they will have a special program, Brussel Martin, owner of Brussel’s Bonsai, http://brusselsbonsai.com/ , will do a lecture/demo of creating a group bonsai forest with seven large trident maples in a 19 inch pot.  I plan to go to the meeting Friday and let me know if you want to ride with me. 

Saturday, he will conduct a trident maple forest workshop.  The cost for the workshop is $130 which includes trident maples, pot, bonsai soil, and wire.  This is a good deal, you won’t find a teacher with more experience doing bonsai forest.  The workshop will be where they meet, Marine Corps League Hall, 2708 Delaware St., Kenner, LA (near Williams Blvd. and I-10)

The 15th annual LSU Spring Garden Show is set for March 18-19 at the John M. Parker Coliseum on Highland Road in LSU.  The show will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day and include numerous vendors selling plants and a tremendous variety of yard, garden and patio merchandise.  We will have bonsai booth there to hand-out information about the Louisiana Bonsai Society, please contact me if you would like to help man the booth.

In addition to the garden show and the 11th annual Louisiana State and Regional Chili Cook-off and the eighth annual Baton Rouge Spring Car Show.  If you would like to be a chili cook-off judge, please contact me.

The Louisiana Bonsai Society is a not for profit organization open to all who are interested in the hobby of bonsai.  Guests are welcome, for more information call Lowell Tilley, 225-272-6744 or email lowelltilley@gmail.com   I am also offering bonsai classes, contact me if you would like to participate.

Please send any suggestions for programs to Lowell Tilley, lowelltilley@gmail.com   your input is very important.

Future Events:

March 2017, 24-25  at 9-5 both days: : Lake Charles Bonsai Society Annual Exhibit at the SWLA Garden Conference & Expo 2017 at Burton Coliseum. Set-up will be on Thursday, 23 March starting from Alan Walker’s Bonsai Studio and going to Burton at noon. There is also the Garden Expo Preview Party on the 23^rd from 6-8 pm.

April, 6-10, 2017: LSBF Convention 2017: Bonsai: Make the Cut at the Sheraton Dallas North Hotel, 4801 LBJ Freeway in Dallas, TX. Featuring guest artists: Bjorn Bjorholm, Daisaku Nomoto, and Juan Andrade. Registration information at http://www.lonestarbonsai.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Registration-Form-and-Workshop-Listing-2017.pdf   Hotel reservations at $99/night (Mention LSBF Bonsai Convention for our room rate.) at '1-800-325-3535 or online at https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/events/start.action?id=1610207227&key=1721A91D.

April 22 and 23, Louisiana Bonsai Society Spring Bonsai Show at the Baton Garden Center, 7050 Independence Blvd, bonsai lecture/demo at 2:00 both days, starter bonsai trees for sale, bonsai raffle.  Admission is FREE

May, 25-28, 2017: ABS/BSF Convention—Moving American Bonsai Forward at Florida Hotel and Conference Center in Orlando, FL. 50^th Anniversary exhibition. Enter your tree into the exhibit to compete for the Hô Yoku Award ($250) for Innovative Bonsai Design! Details at http://www.absbonsai.org. Hotel reservations at 800-588-4656 at $106/night + tax; use code ABS/BSF 2017.

May, 25-28, 2017: Rendezvous 2017 at Brussel’s Bonsai in Olive Branch, MS ('800-582-2593). Featuring Marc Noelanders, Kathy Shaner, Rodney Clemons, Suthin Sukosolvisit, Mauro Stemberger, Mark Fields, Pedro Morales, and John Powell. Registration is $200, or after 30 April $250. Special $92/night room rate at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott. Details at http://brusselsbonsai.bmetrack.com/c/v?e=A6FCF8&c=2273C&t=0&l=77BC939&email=mgpFp2LlkNtqwuyxOutHo5ulT6xCge7E

Registration at http://shop.brusselsbonsai.com/images/Rendezvous2017_Registration.pdf?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=Dec_09_2016_Email&utm_medium=email