Just a quick note to let everyone know that Warren Hill and Dana Quattlebaum will be at Plant City in March. Go to http://www.plantcitybonsai.com/Events.html for details.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
February 2011 Meeting
The Smith Gilbert Bonsai Group held its first meeting of 2011 on February 12. Here is a short summary put together by Rick Dawsey.
We had a wonderful day Saturday. A lot of folks, beautiful weather, and a great teacher!
Rodney opened with a meeting in which he outlined how he thinks we should proceed. He plans to open with a brief meeting, then bring in SGG trees for everyone to work on under his direction, and as a group. It worked great. Everyone sorta self-selected themselves into singles or small groups, and
Rodney circulated, guiding us.
Around lunch some of us moved onto our own trees, and some of us worked on SGG trees all day.
The highlight of the day was the bending of a huge old black pine branch. This tree, donated by Bob, is a great old tree whose top was broken out several years ago. Dennis and Rodney split, wired, raffiaed, and bent a 1" diameter upper branch 90ยบ to vertical, without any breakage or even serious cracking. This process took 3-1/2 hours, and the results show it!
At the end of the day we adjourned to Trackside for a little wine and dinner.
See you next month!
We had a wonderful day Saturday. A lot of folks, beautiful weather, and a great teacher!
Rodney opened with a meeting in which he outlined how he thinks we should proceed. He plans to open with a brief meeting, then bring in SGG trees for everyone to work on under his direction, and as a group. It worked great. Everyone sorta self-selected themselves into singles or small groups, and
Rodney circulated, guiding us.
Around lunch some of us moved onto our own trees, and some of us worked on SGG trees all day.
The highlight of the day was the bending of a huge old black pine branch. This tree, donated by Bob, is a great old tree whose top was broken out several years ago. Dennis and Rodney split, wired, raffiaed, and bent a 1" diameter upper branch 90ยบ to vertical, without any breakage or even serious cracking. This process took 3-1/2 hours, and the results show it!
At the end of the day we adjourned to Trackside for a little wine and dinner.
See you next month!
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