The next 7:30 PM at the meeting of Flagler Extension Kawa Bonsai Office on Sawg Society will be at the regular time

May 2011 www.kawabonsai.com Volume 30 Number 5 . Calendar of Activities May 27 note change in the date companion care. We will be having our regular meeting at the Flagler Workshop on the companion plant care through the Extension Office on Friday, May 27 at 7:30 PM. summer months, to keep healthy, fungus, As always you can insect care and when to divide or take cuttings. use the half hour before the meeting to discuss Everything to keep your companions healthy and problems with your or just for “show and tell”. happy.

We will be having a workshop on Companion Plant June 17 Repotting Tropicals: Each member should Care. Please bring in your companion or bring in one tropical plant for repotting. We will show Kusamonos to find out how to care for them during the how to clean the bottoms of the plant as seen on the summer months. For those of you who have these very Boon DVD. Please bring in soil, pots and your trees. small plants have already found out, they need more water during the very hot months and will dry out July 15 and winter hardy care in the quickly with a hot dry wind. We will also find out about summer months. Pines, Junipers and any other hardy pruning, fungus and insect care and dividing and trees need special care during the summer months. taking cuttings. This program will show how to protect trees from scorch, how to candle prune and how to care for I plan on bringing not only the ones I made in the Juniper during our hot months. Insect and disease care Kusamono workshop but others I have been working on will be covered and product lists of things safe to use from some of the great materials I purchased at David on your trees during the summer months will be given. VanBuskirk's Nursery. August 20 A Day with Erik Wigert. Material will be An interesting plant that I have put into some Campechia. This will be our summer picnic and lunch Kusamono is Lawn Orchids (Soldier Orchids), you can will be provided to the membership. find them in waste areas or in pots of other things that you’ve planted. They bloom in January or February which makes them perfect for Joy of Bonsai. Mike Rogers 736-9947 Tips for May Continue email: [email protected]

doing a lot of pruning and shaping of the bonsai by Louise Leister 446-1233 email:[email protected] pinching and pruning to regulate new growth and to force Gerry and Mary Lou DeVane ramification. prune zelkova and finish the leaf pruning 39 Bud Field Drive, Palm Coast Fl. 32137 237-7712 email: [email protected] of maples to create smaller second-growth . Head Glenn Partelow 586-3437 email: back new growth on maples to one or two sets of leaves and [email protected] loosely wire for shape. Do any air layering needed. Pot Carol Partelow 586-3437 [email protected] trees which recently finished blooming. Watch for pests and fungus on plants. Continue one-half strength fertilizing every two weeks. Propagate tropical plants by cuttings or air layers. Sulphur coat jin and shari and other dead wood on plants. Weed regularly.

If you are planning on taking the Workshop with Erik Wigert on August 20, it’s time to get your deposit in to Louise.

Kawa has spent $1000 to hold trees from Erik’s Nursery for this workshop. Depending on the size of the tree, the workshops will run from $65 to ??? With 65 for the smaller shohin trees to much larger specimens.

So if you are planning to take this workshop, you need to get you deposit of $25 to Louise as soon as possible. This will hold your position in the workshop. After that you can discuss the size tree you want for the workshop.

If not enough people sign up from Kawa to fill this workshop, then it will be opened up to other clubs in the area. Mike Rogers 736-9947 David’s monthly newsletter has a wealth of information for our area. Many times when you look April 2011 on other web sites you don’t get a real feeling for when to do things here in Northern/Central Florida. David’s web site is rammed with interesting info. I will pass some of it along and forward the newsletter President Mike Rogers called the meeting to all of you. It makes great reading!!!!!! to order at 7:39 PM. Louise reported that “PRUNING.... After our winter months some trees the money for registration duties at the have wanted to grow out of proportion, especially Ficus and Scheffleras. So now is the time to prune for last BSF convention added $545.00 to shape. Completely defoliate them and prune back for the Kawa treasury. Further she indicated taper. Check on your species requirements before that the workshop to be offered by Eric you totally defoliate. You can call or e-mail us if you are not certain, I also suggest you read the article on Wigert will be about $65 and will range defoliating on our web site. Most tropicals can handle higher depending on the size tree chosen. defoliation, and it will greatly reduce their leaf size $25 will hold a spot for the workshop on and create better ramification. Cut every leaf off, leaving some of the petiole. If the tree needs to be Campechias. brought back further, do it now. You can also root prune and repot your tropicals now. The treasury report was in checking we had $2,995.69 and the Vanguard account Now is when you really have to keep on top of your pruning to increase ramification. of $4514.77. The major expense was $1,020 for trees and travel for Eric Prune back your Phillippine Jasmine and feed it some Ironite. Wigert. Some of that money may be recovered depending on participation in Thin out your Boxwoods and your Hollies to let more light inside the tree. the workshop. The minutes were read and both reports voted and accepted. Even though your Barbados Cherry might be blooming, prune back for better ramification and There were 17 present that included a many more blooms later in the summer, same with your Serissas. new member, and our guest demonstrator Mike Feduccia. After each branch on your Bougainvillea is bloomed out, cut those branches way back.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 PM. Keep the growth tips pinched on your Maples.

Keep pruning your Elms back to the first or second node.

If you need help with or guidance on pruning then Submitted….G. Partelow /Kawa Secretary try to make it to a workshop. We will be pruning a lot of different species.”

This is just a small bit of his info, read the whole newsletter when I send it. At the last meeting, we had BSF’s 2nd place Scholarship winner, Mike Feduccia, style a Lime Prickly Ash. The specimen he worked on, Zanthoxylum fagara, was about 25 to 30 years old. I will show you a progression of pictures of the tree as it was styled.

At the end of the meeting the Lime Prickly Ash tree was raffled off and Joe Stumpf won it. Earlier in the meeting Joe was complaining that he had no room left in his greenhouse and, in fact, farms some of his out to Mike Betts. Well Mike I hope you have room in your greenhouse, this is not a shohin tree.

If you have an interesting article or idea for the newsletter please feel free to email it to me. If you have pictures to go along with that article make sure they are at a low resolution. For instance, when I send this newsletter to you I make sure the pictures are at 96 dpi so the newsletter doesn’t take so long to download to your computer. This weekend, Palm Coast had its Flower and Garden show. Homer Stroike single handily did the Bonsai Exhibition and he and Gerry DeVane had the Orchid display tables right next to it. In case you missed this beautiful show I will show you just some of the pictures.

And the Orchids, aren’t they beautiful?

Show and tell from the April Meeting

If you have an interesting article or idea for the newsletter