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Text Box: The Kingsville or other small boxwood species can be a single or multiple tree planting. You can plant in a pot, a slab, on a rock, in a rock. It can be a composition with trees, stones, objects, (huts, people, animals) . None of the objects can be larger than the smallest tree. The composition must be easily carried by one person. All the boxwoods must be a small leaf species. A $5.00 fee for each tree entered in the contest. Everyone registered for Day Of Bonsai 05 can vote on

Text Box: their choice. The artist with the winning boxwood will take home all the $5.00 Small Boxwood contest entrance money. You can enter as many small boxwood compositions as you want as long as you pay $5.00 for each composition you enter. Now is the time to start planning your small leaf Boxwood contest winner. This should be lots of fun and show how creative it’s possible to be with these wonderful trees. They look

Text Box: great as single trees in a pot but that’s just one way to use a small leaf Boxwood. Need an idea to get you started? Scan the internet. The Australian folk are doing some great creative compositions at their shows. Remember the idea or design can be any type of tree. Boxwood are hard to find on the net so just look at how they are using local species and design something with a small leaf boxwood. Joe.

Text Box: $20.00. Observer fee is $3.00. We will have a sign up sheet at the Christmas dinner meeting. Ben has indicated that he will not be doing the Florida tour that many more years so take advantage of the opportunity to work with a world class bonsai master teacher. Ben does a drawing of each tree he styles. Keep those drawings they are valuable. If you need more instructions

Text Box: Ben Oki will be doing a bonsai workshop for ABS, January 20th at 7 P.M. The workshop will be held at the Providence Presbyterian Church located at 2320 Schillinger Rd. South. It is about 100 yards on the left side of Schillingers Road after crossing Cottage Hill Road going North toward Airport Blvd. Our normal location was booked on Jan 20th. The cost to work with Ben is

Text Box: on the location talk with Joe Kuhn he booked this location for us. Finding a location to do a workshop is a difficult chore so hats off to Joe Kuhn. We have the date, location and as always we will have some good eats so cross your fingers that the weather is nice. Ben usually comes the first couple days in January and brings cold weather. We can hope the later date will mean better weather. Joe.

Text Box: The SmallBoxwood Contest for “Day Of Bonsai 05”

Text Box: northern cold front blows over our area. Because it’s cold we think our trees are not drying out and that is often a fatal mistake. I’ve never lost a bonsai to just cold temps. My nursery stock stay out side every winter and seem to love it. Because I don’t need broke expensive bonsai pots I do try to protect my bonsai

Text Box: that are in bonsai pots. Usually this can be done by making sure they are out of the wind, low to the ground or actually sitting on a ground cover that is on the ground. When it’s very cold “below 20” I put a cloth cover over the bonsai to trap the ground heat under the cover. Joe.

Text Box: Cold weather is slow getting here this year but it will show up soon. Our cold almost always comes from the North-West . It’s cold, the wind blows and the humidity drops. It’s the dry wind that will do the most damage to your bonsai. Our normal humidity is around 60 to 90 %. It can quickly drop to 20% when an

Text Box: “I’ve never lost a bonsai tree to cold temps, it’s always the wind”