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From the Editor

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:51:16 +0000

Adam Lavigne Well, here we are again, about to close the year down. It’s old and haggard, bent and grey, walking with a cane towards its rebirth. I truly hope the New Year is a good one for us all, with no hard freezes, or hurricanes or drought. It was a year, to say the...

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Bald cypress bonsai: a DYI project

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:50:35 +0000

Shaji Mathews Bald cypress is one of the few trees that change color and appearance by the seasons in Florida. If you ever drive across the “Big Cypress Preserve “section of the “alligator alley” on I-75 in summer, lush green of the groves of cypress on both sides of the highway is a welcoming sight....

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Epcot

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:49:59 +0000

Excerpt from BSF Epcot Page photos from the 2022 exhibit by Jorge Nazario Since the beginning of the Flower and Garden Festival in 1997, Bonsai Societies of Florida (BSF) has partnered with Walt Disney World (WDW) to display Bonsai in the Japanese Pavilion at Epcot. However, this is no ordinary display and by no means...

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Convention Poem

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:48:31 +0000

Spent some time at a Bonsai Bizarre Saw many people from near and from far. Vendors of trees and soil and pots Tee shirts and tools for which there were lots. The exhibit was awesome, food for the mind Some so traditional, some one of a kind. The workshops and demos were knowledge galore The...

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Cayo’s Story

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:48:03 +0000

By CAYO SOUZA MATTOS While many people emerged from the pandemic with exciting hobbies such as running, knitting, reading, and candle making, I think I took the cake as I surfaced with a newfound love of Bonsai. Nature has always interested me; I’ve always been curious as to how trees can form into strange shapes...

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Joy of Bonsai

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:47:33 +0000

Michael Rogers It seems like February 2022 was just a week or so ago when Kawa Bonsai Society held its 16th Joy of Bonsai event in DeLand at Schley’s Bonsai & Supplies. Our headliner, Sean Smith, flew in and conducted workshops that included building kifu and carving shohin root stands as well as Maple and...

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Florida Artists Win at the 2022 Winter Silhouette Show

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:46:26 +0000

Photos by Rob Kempinski Every December, in Kannapolis NC, Steven Zeisel and Bill Valavanis hold a uniquely themed exhibit at the North Carolina Research Campus, The Winter Silhouette Show. The theme, guessing by its name, is how trees look during the winter. As usual, this year we had several Florida Bonsai artists join in the...

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Collecting a tree with the President

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:45:35 +0000

A few months ago, I get a text message from the new BSF President, Kathrin, along with some pics: “…..I was at my trust attorneys office today and saw this amazingly large ficus microcarpa. They are going to remove it…do you suppose we could salvage it for a future BSF demo (if it survives?)…” “…It’s...

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Presidents Message

Drew Rooks — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:42:54 +0000

By Kathrin Harris This is supposed to be the Autumn edition of the Magazine, but our Publications Chair, Adam, has been patiently waiting over two months for me to write the President’s Message. While I imagine he has had a chance to add more content, I’m pushing the envelope as far as this issue still...

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The Florida Bonsai Magazine: Summer 2022

rookstemplate — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 16:50:00 +0000

President’s Message By Kathrin Harris If you read the Spring edition of the BSF Magazine, or attended the very successful 2022 convention, you know that congratulations are in order for Jorge’s career advancement! Sadly, this meant he had to move to North Carolina and resign as BSF President, yet fortunately, Jorge is still involved, and can now be reached at convention@bonsai-bsf.com....

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