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by Lawrence LeClaireFog City Bonsai August 2007 Issue
Aug 2nd: Here is your online version of Fog City Bonsai for August 2007. This issue features: July Meeting Notes - Suiseki: A Skyline of Small Mountains August Meeting Announcement - Tim Kong and Ficus July Field Trip to Sonoma County Pine Pitch Canker - What it means to me - Eric Schrader Pieces of Bonsai - Sharp Tools and Bonsai Cuts - John Boyce From the Prez - John Edwards Upcoming Events, Meetings, and Announcements Your Late Summer Bonsai Care Calendar BSSF Download Fog City Bonsai August 2007 (5MB)  read more »
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by Eric SchraderSeeds
Mar 7th: Well, it's that time of year again -time to start some seeds. I actually think that I should have started a month ago. Oh well, the trees will just be a little smaller. On the left is a bag of Japanese Black Pine seeds and on the right is a bag of Green Atlas Cedar seeds. I've never started either from seed, but last year I started a California native pine, the Knobcone, from seed as well as about 50 oaks...  read more »
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by Eric SchraderFertilizer Balls
Mar 3rd: I made my own fertilizer balls out of a mixture of Alfalfa meal, bone meal and fish emulsion over the winter. They look like little hay bales after I chopped them up and dried them. They don't smell too bad, as I had heard that most home-made ones do, but with all of the heavy rain that we are having they are quickly disintegrating. I hadn't put out too many before the last round of storms, but with new spring growth on almost all of my trees now I couldn't wait any longer...  read more »
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by Eric SchraderWinter then spring…
Feb 22nd: Winter is always a time of some trepidation for me. I have this tendancy to think that all my trees have died. Well, at least some of them. After repotting and root work it is always a relief to see the buds opening and the new foliage emerge. This past fall I repotted a pine tree that is about 120 years old, originally imported from Japan for the 1915 Pan Exposition here in San Francisco. I bought it from a gentleman who's grandmother had purchased it there...  read more »
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by Eric SchraderHiking around California
Desolation Wilderness 3
Jan 31st: I have been going to the gym all winter in preparation for the coming hiking season. In the past I have managed to go on a few short hiking trips each spring or summer. These serve as inspiration for bonsai styling since I try to go places where I think that I will encounter high mountian trees or other interesting specimens. If anyone from the club is interested in going please let me know. I would love to bounce destination ideas off people and I think it would be fun to have a group of more than two people on a hike...  read more »
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