Text Box: Southern Bonsaist Text Box: Ben Oki will start our 2006 event schedule with a workshop at the Garden Center on January 5th. The Day of Bonsai will be held at St Lukes Church and School on March 18th. Fred Morales and Russell Coker are heading up the design team for a great bonsai display at the 2006 Festival of Flowers, big show to be held 23,24, 25 and 26th of March. This display will be seen by over 100,000 people.We will schedule our spring show at the West Mobile Regional Library on either April 22 or 29, subject to confirming with the library. We will have our ACBS Summer Social at a members house one Saturday in April. We will establish a date and location later. The Tri-Cities show Text Box: hosted by Fort Walton will be May 6th. This is a great time to enjoy the company of bonsai artist from Mobile, Pensacola and Ft Walton. Our Bel-Air Mall Spring show will be held early in June. We will establish a date with the mall after the new year. We will not have a July 06 regular meeting but we will see if we can get a back yard event going later in the month, subject to hurricane season goings on. Text Box: This is a busy slate of events for spring 06. Ben Oki.. January 5th Day of Bonsai..March 18th Festival of Flowers..March 23,24,25,&26. West Regional Library..April 22 or 29 The ACBS Summer Social in April Tri-Cities show at Ft Walton Beach...May 6th. The Bel-Air Mall Spring Show early in June Text Box: new growth that you must water many times daily. We have our last severe cold “usually” about mid February. That’s about 6 weeks before the last normal date of below 32 weather. This 6 weeks is our best repotting time. If you start potting now you must have some place to put your bonsai that would protect from intense cold and a place out of the sum to keep them from being pushed into Text Box: Our gulf coast weather makes repotting early very tricky, repotting late very tricky and almost impossible to pick the absolute best time to repot. Repotting now, you risk another very warm spell and your bonsai pushing out new growth just in time to have the new roots freeze.. Killing the bonsai. Repot in April at the end of the chance for a freeze you risk a hot and dry spell pushing lots of Text Box: new growth when our temps swing upward for a few day every few days. This is a lot work but if you have a large collection it might be necessary. With a smaller collection and can get soil, pots and everything else you might need read and repot near the time when the cold ends new growth begins and extreme hot is still in south Florida. Joe Day Text Box: Page # Text Box: What Makes a good workshop meeting Text Box: 2006 ACBS Events Text Box: How early to start repotting Text Box: Snacks must be placed out to allow everyone to snack as the workshop proceeds. The person bringing a tree to a workshop is the artist. The person giving the advice and helping is just that “ the person giving advice”. Take the advice if you feel comfortable with what you hear. Any material you bring to a workshop Text Box: is material worth considering carefully. It main point to a workshop is to move the material further along to becoming a good bonsai. Every species in unique and the advice about how to develop it is complex. A workshop is where you can find the information you will need for each species. Joe Day Text Box: Workshops are complex and require a lot of time to get results. Our regular meeting start at 7 with a goal of finishing about 9 P.M. Two hours to work with and talk to 5 to 10 people about individual bonsai mean a lot has to happen quickly . The business part of the meeting has to be kept to a minimum. Text Box: