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by Lawrence LeClaireFog City Bonsai May 2009 Issue
May 6th: Here is your online version of Fog City Bonsai for May 2009. This issue features: April Meeting Notes: Yamadori-style junipers Fertilize!!! by L. LeClaire Do What Jim Says... by E. Schrader Bonsai Notes for May Upcoming Events, Meetings, and Announcements Your Spring Bonsai Care Calendar - BSSF Download Fog City Bonsai May 2009 (0.972 MB)  read more »
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by Lawrence LeClaireFog City Bonsai April 2009 Issue
Mar 31st: Here is your online version of Fog City Bonsai for April 2009. This issue features: March General Meeting Notes - Bonsai Display April Meeting Announcement - Jim Gremel and Yamadori-style Junipers April Collecting Trip Photos from the Show! Guidelines for the April Sale The Trouble with Root Aphids Upcoming Events, Meetings, and Announcements Your Spring Bonsai Care Calendar BSSF Download Fog City Bonsai April 2009 (0...  read more »
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by Lawrence LeClaireFebruary 2008 General Meeting - Branch Enhancement - Grafting Junipers with Jim Gremel
Feb 14th: Jim Gremel was our guest for the February General Meeting to demonstrate how to graft shimpaku foliage onto juniper stock. Jim is known all around the Bay Area and California as an expert grafter and for his superb trees. It was our great pleasure to have Jim as a guest and make the long drive down from Occidental on a rainy Thursday night. Of the many useful techniques to enhance trees trained for bonsai, grafting is one of the more powerful techniques, allowing addition of new roots, branches, and foliage to a tree...  read more »
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by Eric SchraderThe beginner, “the stick” and bonsai stock
Dec 3rd: So many times a beginner shows up to a workshop with (or posts a picture to a forum of) a “stick in a pot” as they are frequently called. The poor person, after being subject to some amount of ridicule, is usually told to “stick it in the ground for 5 years and forget about it.” This attitude, which so many experienced bonsai growers have toward the newbie and the young tree, is quite counterproductive for everyone...  read more »
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by Eric SchraderJim Gremel Whips Some Junipers Into Shape
Yamadori style by Jim Gremel
Mar 9th: March 2006 Program Notes For our March general meeting Jim Gremel was on hand to conduct a workshop on small Juniper stock. Jim, who is well known for taking pliable young material and bending it all around into interesting shapes, brought along examples, large and small, of what he has done in ten years of training in the "yamadori style". Jim's technique involves putting copper wire of an appropriate size onto the long whips of shimpaku (juniper) and bending it into coils or snakes or any other twisted shape that comes to mind...  read more »
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