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Bonsai Society of Brevard is a non-profit society meeting to further the artistic endeavor of Bonsai. The club meets the third Saturday of every month, 1 PM, at the Melbourne Public Library, Fee Avenue, Melbourne Check out the BSOB web site. http://www.bonsaisocietyofbrevard.org.
March 2017 Volume 18, Number 3
Our next meeting is 1:00 Saturday, March 18 at the Melbourne Public Library. _________________________________________ President’s Message By Dr. Reggie Perdue Greeting Bonsai nuts. It's been an unusual month. Warm at times and now we have a late winter cold snap. Could be worse. The north is under several inches and some a couple feet of snow. I don't think our cold will be any significant problem to our bonsai. I still have been doing the "spring trim" on many of my trees, but had 4 layer of shirts on today to combat the cold. Last weekend several members for our club met at the Brevard Zoo and spruced up the exhibit. It's been 11 years since it was first built by us. It's weathered well over the years and hopefully will endure long into the future. Thanks to all who helped. Pictures are on the club's Facebook page and web site. This meeting we have Alan Gouldthorpe, a charter member of this club demonstrating Mame Bonsai. These are the smallest of the small bonsai. Currently the interest in bonsai seems to be going towards the smaller trees. There is even a national Shohin Convention in June. If you want to know how to make tiny trees come on in to the meeting to find out. Hope to see everyone there. Reggie
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In this Issue: ¾ Chase Rosade, Bonsai Master ¾ February Meeting Highlights
From the Editor Dennis Reilly My Bonsai painting was well received last month. I received a number of approving comments; thank you for the kind words. I thought it would be fun to twist “show and tell” a bit. Would have been better if Bobby Block had been there - It’s hard to throw a tree out – to admit that you killed it. My juniper was struggling and finally cashed it in. This is the 2nd juniper I have lost. Time to move on to something different. With me, it’s two strikes and you’re out. Dennis [email protected]
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Upcoming Events Calendar State Bonsai Convention
Orlando, May 26-28, 2017 Boca Club Auction
March 25, 2017 Kannapolis Workshop June 24-25, 2017 BSOB Show at Brevard Zoo August 19-20, 2017
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BONSAI News from Around the Globe Bonsai master takes hobbit-size trees to Philadelphia Flower Show
Bonsai master Chase Rosade, 82, prunes a Japanese maple bonsai in his New Hope studio March 8, 2017, next to a Japanese white pine. He started the Japanese maple bonsai in 1958 as a seedling. Rosade will be exhibiting one of his bonsai trees along with many of his students’ creations at the Philadelphia Flower Show.
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Wielding his thinning scissors with the steady hand and intense focus of a neurosurgeon, bonsai master Chase Rosade, 82, stood in the light streaming through his greenhouse roof and clipped the 18-inch-high but fully-developed Japanese maple he had found as a seedling in 1958 on the campus of his alma mater, Delaware Valley University in Doylestown. Had he left it in the ground, it could have grown 30 feet tall by now, 59 years into its 100-year life span. “These aren’t houseplants,” Rosade said, breaking the silence in the New Hope greenhouse where he has been creating bonsai trees since 1970. “This is a horticultural endeavor. You keep pruning the roots and branches to keep a bonsai small, keep it within bounds. You water it, repot it, coddle it. It’s like your dog or your cat. You don’t walk away from bonsais without giving them the good graces of your care.” Rosade, who has exhibited his bonsai trees at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Flower Show for the last three dozen years, will bring his Japanese maple, along with 15 trees on loan from fellow bonsai enthusiasts, to the 2017 show, which runs from Saturday through March 19 at the Convention Center. Instead of displaying several of his own treasured bonsais, as he has in the past, Rosade will spotlight the creations of longtime students and friends.
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After working for years as a landscaper, the Allentown native traveled to Japan in 1963. There, he met bonsai master Kyozo Yoshida, spent a year as his apprentice, and fell under the spell of the delicate art that dates back to 700 in China. “It was amazing,” Rosade said. “I could not get over these plants. I didn’t speak Japanese. He didn’t speak English. We communicated by gesture. He didn’t say, ‘Prune this way.’ You watch him prune and shape, and you learn by watching. I started by pulling weeds, screening soil, watering.” Finally, Yoshida let Rosade work on an overgrown tree. “A man came to the nursery and sat there all day, watching me work on the tree, pruning, wiring to shape the branches. Once in a while, he nodded his head," Rosade remembered. "Turned out it was his tree.” Slowly, he became a bonsai master himself. He opened the Rosade Bonsai Studio in 1970, and traveled the world for decades as a speaker/mentor at bonsai symposiums. At one, he met Solita Tafur, a widow who founded the Latin American Bonsai Federation, and they married. Both run monthly, all-day bonsai workshops at home and teach at international gatherings of devotees. While Rosade rules the dozens of bonsais in his greenhouse, Tafur nurtures the tropical bonsai trees that line the windows inside the family home. “Oh, they can’t wait to go outside in late May,” she said, gesturing toward her flowering ficus and japonica bonsai trees with their surreal gnarled trunks and their promise of pastel flowers come spring. “When I move them outside, it’s like taking a child to camp,” Tafur said, laughing. “When they have to come inside in September, October, they tell me, ‘I want to stay outside.’ I tell them, ‘We’re in Pennsylvania. You have to come in for winter.’ They punish me by losing leaves. By Thanksgiving, they’ve punished me enough, so they stop.’” Back in the greenhouse, which looks like a miniature fairy-tale forest where hobbits might pop out from behind the tiny junipers at any moment, Rosade pointed to a ponderosa pine, 2½ feet high. “I found it hiking in the mountains of Colorado 30 years ago,” he said. “It might have been 150 years old then. I said, ‘Ah, that’s going to make a great bonsai.’ ” Rosade’s 30 years of shaping and pruning his ponderosa pine, which can live 500 years and grow to more than 200 feet in nature, have kept it at the size he found it, fulfilling his prediction of bonsai greatness. “A bonsai is never completely finished,” he said, gently clipping his pine. “It’s always changing. I enjoy working every day here. It’s quiet, serene. I play classical music or jazz, and I lose myself for hours on end in trimming, pruning, shaping my bonsai trees.” He looked around his greenhouse and smiled. “And I’m still learning.”
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February meeting highlights
Reggie Perdue presented “Re-potting Deciduous Trees” Couple points he stressed:
1. Decide your front first 2. If wiring is needed, do it before repotting 3. Pot shape and size are important 4. Don’t be hesitant in trimming the roots 5. Don’t use much, if any, of the old soil – it could be
depleted of all nutrients. Best to use new soil. 6. Because the goal of Bonsai to do “age” the tree
prematurely, prune the branches now to gain that effect for later. Reggie demonstrated removing “bar” branches to decrease a perfect alignment look.
Bonsai Society of Brevard is a non-profit society meeting to further the artistic endeavor of Bonsai. The club meets the third Saturday of every month, 2 PM, at the Melbourne Public Library, Fee Avenue, Melbourne
Board of Directors Dr Reggie Perdue, President 321-723-1184 [email protected] Barbara Hiser, Vice Pres. 321-482-1666 [email protected] Bruce Hartman Secretary 305-951-3925 [email protected] Bill Crabtree Membership Secretary 321-773-4563 Ronn Miller, Treasurer 321-264-9819 [email protected] Rob Kempinski, Zoo Exhibit 321-259-0832 [email protected] Rob’s Blog http://www.knowledgeofbonsai.org/rob_kempinski/
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____________________________________ HANDY BONSAI WEBSITES http://www.bonsaisocietyofbrevard.org/ Has many links to Brevard Club Newsletters and bonsai tips for Florida bonsai. http://www.bonsai-bsf.com/ Bonsai Society of Florida. Good info on Fl. Bonsai. http://www.knowledgeofbonsai.org/rob_kempinski/ Our own Rob’s website. Great articles & pics. http://www.knowledgeofbonsai.org/index.php Worldwide site with galleries and information. http://internetbonsaiclub.org/ Nice site with great galleries. http://www.jimsmithbonsai.com/[email protected] http://www.artofbonsai.org/ The Art of Bonsai Project is an online journal and community for the examination and exploration of the bonsai art form. _____________________________________
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Amerian Bonsai
Cullen Mariacher Bonsai tools, supplies, pots, soil (321) 802-2222 www.americanbonsai.com & http://www.americanbonsaiblog.com/
Heathcote Botanical Gardens
An exhibit of quality bonsai trees from the collection of Master Jim Smith.
http://www.heathcotebotanicalgardens.org/ 210 Savannah Road
Fort Pierce, Florida 34982 772-464-0323
Tuesday - Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm Sundays (Nov-April Only) 1:00pm - 5:00pm Closed Mondays and Major Holidays $6 Adults - $5 Seniors $2 Ages 6 to 12 (Children Under 6 Free) Free for Members and Veterans with I.D. (excluding special fund raisers) Handicap Accessible - Wheelchairs Available
Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
Includes an exhibit of quality trees donated by members of the Bonsai Society of Florida over
many years. 4000 Morikami Park Road
Delray Beach, FL 33446 561-495-0233
http://www.morikami.org Adults (18 to 64) $13
Seniors $12 Children (6 to 17) $8 Five and under free
Closed Mondays and National Holidays Tuesday through Sunday 10 to 5