Text Box: Southern Bonsaist Text Box: The heat and lack of rain made me over pot some of my bonsai, put soil in the pots higher than normal and use a good organic fertilizer on all my bonsai. I still lost some of my developing stock that was weak from the effects of the extreme heat and low humidity from last fall but I have better than normal growth with other bonsai. My Japanese Maple have stayed in good health but growth has been slow. Zelkova have grown better than ever. My few Catlin elm have done very well. My Lantana potted with lots of fertilizer and lots of soil in the pot has grown the best ever. Text Box: For reasons that I don’t fully understand the Azalea bonsai potted the same as every other year have grown better than they have in lots of years. They haven’t grown as much as previous good rain years but they have wonderful color and healthy leaves. I have not had any problems this year with leaf chewing insects. Without the tender new growth to chew on I guess they have found tasty leaves somewhere else. I have not had fungus problems or root problems. These are the positives. The negatives are the lack of growth. I could not take a chance on doing drastic Text Box: work on some bonsai due to the severe weather conditions. All my cuttings I took in the Spring died. The Air layer work I wanted to do was put off for another year. My bonsai area has been set up with most of my bonsai under the trees or on pushed together on benches that get only half day sunlight. It helps the bonsai but it certainly makes my display area look more like a bonsai parking lot than a bonsai display area. If the rains return or I can keep watering as needed this year might turn out to be a so-so year instead of a bad year for my bonsai. Joe Day Text Box: The fee for this two day event with two of the top Japanese garden experts is $125.00. This two day event will cover a tremendous range of Japanese garden topics. This event is presented by the Japanese Garden Foundation. Joe Day has complete information available if you are interested in attending or know someone who would like to attend this event. Text Box: November 4th at the Mobile West Regional Library on Grelot road a two day workshop will be held with the number 1 Japanese garden landscape architect Takeo Uesugi and Tokushirou Tamane, master gardener of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan. One day of teaching will be held at the library, one day of hands on teaching with rocks and trees on site at the Japanese Garden site. Text Box: Space is limited. If you are interested please see Joe Day and sign up early. New Orleans Auction August 12th St Andrews Church at 8017 Zimple Street. Viewing 5 P.M. Auction starts at 6 P.M. Text Box: Page # Text Box: The next season of Bonsai Masters Text Box: Lessons from a dry Summer Text Box: A fall event of interest Text Box: August ACBS regular meeting. Each of these bonsai teachers are excellent and have received great reviews from the places they have visited. Ted Matson is the only teacher that we have not had the opportunity work with at ACBS. Working with a traveling teacher is a great experience. This slate Text Box: of teachers bring us artist capable of working with and improving the best of the bonsai in any collection. If you plan to work with these artist it is never too early to start selecting material you want to improve over the next growing season. We will select the master teachers we will have for 07 at the August meeting. Joe Day Text Box: We can expect Ben Oki the first week in January, his normal time to be in Mobile. Suthin’s schedule puts him st-arting his tour on February 01, and again August 13th. Ted Matson will be on tour starting some time in April. We will need to select the master or masters we want to teach in Mobile at our Text Box: