Mid-Winter Workshop
Baton Rouge Garden Center
7950 Independence Blvd. Baton Rouge,
LA
Friday
January 18, 2019
Bonsai Workshop 12:00 p.m.
to 4:00 p.m.
Workshop $30 (LBS members $25).. Limited to 8 participants. Supper
social to follow $12.
Demonstration by Mr. David
DeGroot 5:00
Saturday,
January 19, 2019
Bonsai Workshop 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Workshop
$45 (LBS members $35). Limited to 8
participants. Lunch $12. Observer $10 (LBS members-Free)
Bonsai Workshop 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Workshop
$40 (LBS members $30). Limited to 8.
Supper social $12. Observer $10
(LBS members-Free)
Sunday
January 20, 2019
Bonsai Program 9:00 a.m. to 12:00
Workshop
$30 (LBS Members $25). Limited to 8 participants. Lunch $12. Observer $10 (LBS
members-Free)
Raffle of Demonstration Tree 12:00
Raffle
tickets are $5 per ticket or $20 for 5 tickets.
Need not be present to win.
Featured
Artist and Workshop Leader
Mr.
David DeGroot
LBS welcomes back David DeGroot. He has been practicing bonsai for nearly
fifty years. David De Groot is Curator
Emeritus of the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, WA where he served as
managing curator for 25 years. He is an award-winning designer and author, who
has been studying and practicing bonsai since 1972.
He has studied bonsai in Japan with Yasuo Mitsuya at
Tokai-en Bonsai Nursery. He studied satsuki (azaleas) with Tatemori Gondo and
Hayata Nakayama at Suisho Nakayama Nursery, and formal bonsai display with
Uhaku Sudo. at Chikufu-en Bonsai Nursery.
His educational journal articles have been published
throughout the U.S. and in eight other countries, and he is author of two books
published by the American Bonsai Society - Basic
Bonsai Design and Principles of Bonsai Design, now in its
second printing.
David travels widely to lecture, and has presented programs
on five continents. He is active with several bonsai organizations in the Puget
Sound area and serves as Secretary for Bonsai Clubs International.
Dave is an excellent teacher
who understands growing bonsai in Gulf Coast Climate. We decided he was too good for just a one day
program and one club, so we extended it to three days and are inviting other
bonsai club members to participate. This
a convention quality event, at club prices.
The workshops are customized
to fulfill the needs of accomplished bonsai artist or members just starting to
learn about bonsai. The workshops are multi-species, bring your own tree
workshops. If you don’t have a tree, we
have some starter material you can purchase at cost. Just checkout the list and if you don’t see
what you want, I will help you find the material you are looking for. We will have some accomplished bonsai artists
to assist Dave with beginners so the workshop doesn’t get held back by some of
the basics.