The Louisiana Bonsai Society
(LBS) held their 2018 Annual Fall Bonsai show at the Baton Rouge Main Library
on October 27 and 27. The club members
displayed some of their best bonsai to the public and sold so bonsai to support
the club’s expert bonsai workshop programs.
The bonsai lecture/demo on
Saturday October 27 was done by Jim Scarton, Louisiana Bonsai Society President. Jim did a bald cypress bonsai lecture/demo was
about refining one of his bald cypress bonsai that he collected and has worked
on for several years.
Jim
Scarton’s bald cypress bonsai before
Photo by Ray Schell
Jim Scarton’s bald cypress bonsai after
The bonsai lecture/demo on Sunday
was very different. Lowell Tilley, Vice
President, did eastern red cedar group planting bonsai lecture/demo on October
28.
Photo by Ray Schell
Lowell Tilley’s Eastern Read Cedars
Photo by Ray Schell
Lowell Tilley’s Eastern Read
Cedars Eastern Red Cedar Group Planting
The
red cedars group are planted on rocks to add an additional artistic element to
create the illusion of a forest on a mountain top. There will be follow-up lecture/demos next
year.
Photo by Ray Schell
Lowell
Tilley, LBS Vice President, Walter Imahara, Founder of Imahara Landscaping and
Developer of Saint Francis Imahara Botanical Gardens, and Jim Scarton, LBS
President
At
the show on Sunday, Walter Imahara presented a wood plaque to the Louisiana
Bonsai Society carved by James Imahara, Walter’s father who was a charter
member of the Louisiana Bonsai Society. The plaque says “bonsai” in
Japanese and was carved in cypress wood for the bonsai club that they
founded. James Imahara and Steele Burden were two of the charter members
of Louisiana Bonsai Society.
The next LBS meeting will be November
20, 7:00, will be a special workshop on developing accent plants used in bonsai
shows conducted by Lee Vanderpool, a member of the Fort Walton Beach Bonsai
Society, from Florida,
They meet on the third Tuesday
of each month at the Baton Rouge Garden Center, 7950 Independence Blvd. Visitors are welcome, for more information
call Lowell Tilley, 272-6744
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