2024 - 2025
Club Activity Calendar

[ September - May ]

All Wednesday meetings start at 7:30 PM
Meet and greet starts at 7:00 PM.
OCTOBER 2024

  •  2    Three separate Table Talks for fall
  • 5-8  LA bus trip with visits to selected bonsai nurseries in the LA area, attend a bonsai swap meet and show, and visit the Huntington Botanical Gardens. [ Members Only ]
  • 16    Open workshop
  • 26    Beginner styling workshop at Summer Winds Nursery on Tatum [ Members Only ]
NOVEMBER 2024

  •  6    A talk on judging criteria for bonsai shows
  • 17    “Introduction to Bonsai” talk for beginners at the Japanese Friendship Garden
  • 20    Wiring workshop
DECEMBER 2024

  •  4    Club auction [ Members Only ]
  •  7    Holiday party (location to be announced) [ Members Only ]
  • 18    Open workshop
JANUARY 2025

  •  8    Critique on trees in silhouette
  • 12    “Introduction to Bonsai” talk for beginners at the Japanese Friendship Garden
  • 22    Open workshop
FEBRUARY 2025

  •  5    Talk on saikei (bonsai landscapes) by GayLynn Goetzke
  • 19   Open workshop
  • 22    Beginner repotting workshop at Summer Winds Nursery on Tatum [ Members Only ]
MARCH 2025

  •  2    Bonsai and Flower show at the Japanese Friendship Garden
  •  5    Three separate Table Talks for spring
  • 19   Review and preparation of trees for our spring show
APRIL 2025

  •  2    Critique on bonsai Forests and Flowers
  •  5-6   PBS annual Bonsai Show at the VGC with demos and critique
  • 13    “Introduction to Bonsai” talk for beginners at the Japanese Friendship Garden
  • 16    Open workshop
MAY 2025

  •  7    Talk on Japanese gardens by Ben Schrepf, the curator of the Japanese Friendship Garden
  • 21   End of year potluck and auction [ Members Only ]

Phoenix Arizona

May through September, it is imperative to give your trees shade. These upcoming months are not for the “weak of heart."  Please remember to not cook your trees.  It can happen in just a few hours.
Dappled shade is a premium as it allows for short periods of sun followed by cooling off periods in between. Tree survival is based on many factors we often don't consider such as:
-Size of tree and pot
-Plant species
-Watering habits of owner
-Wind and sun exposure throughout the day.		 -Depth of pot.
-Placement in yard
-Soil composition		  

 

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Annual Tree Show 2024

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Activities

Our Club offers Bonsai demonstrations by Masters in the art, hands on experience, lectures, workshops, beginner classes, benefit drawings, Bonsai information and local events

Magical Miniature Landscapes

The History of Bonsai and the Related Arts By Bonsai Historian Robert Baran 

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Annual Tree Show 2023

More Show Photos: Click Here

Dec 4th silent and live auction

Bus Trip 2023 w / Peter Macasieb

Beginner Workshop 10-15-2022

Member Gardens

Workshop 10-2021  #1

Workshop 10-2021  #2

@ The Huntington Library, Art Museum - 2022

PBS 2022 at - The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Bonsai Show 2022

Japanese Friendship Garden 2021

Mesmerized!

Japanese Friendship Garden 2021

 

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COVID Warriors!

Our “best” new beginners.
When you absolutely HAVE to learn the art of Bonsai.
Thank you to the 2020 Fall participants and our dedicated Phoenix Bonsai mentors.
I will do my best to make your expectations a reality.~Jenna

COVID Warriors! Our “best” new beginners. When you absolutely HAVE to learn the art of Bonsai. Thank you to the 2020 Fall participants and our dedicated Phoenix Bonsai mentors. I will do my best to make your expectations a reality.~Jenna

Japanese Friendship Garden 2021

 

Our Rock Star

Welcome the Sonora Suiseki Club of Arizona

 

 

The art originated in China where stones were admired for their natural beauty. They were used in miniature landscapes and depicted in scrolls. Stones then made their way to Japan where it was refined into an art form. This art form featured stones with uncut natural beauty and shapes were admired for generations. The stones were placed at just the right angle in their container or stand that enhanced the all-important viewing.

Learn: Rules & Techniques, attend shows, Trips to collect stones of your own.

Meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday each month starting Sept 11th @7:00pm
Location: Valley Garden Center 1809 N. 15 Av. Phoenix AZ

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To see more Viewing Stones - Click Here

 

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Japanese Friendship Garden

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Bougainvillea 'rescue'

These photos are out of order, but we salvaged some bougainvillea cuttings from an abandoned office complex Sept 3rd. Check out the tough love, take no roots, approach. Bonsai club guru Gary said “guaranteed to grow” using this method. Bougainvilleas are survivors

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Our new Bonsai Basic instructors

Phoenix Bonsai Society members Susie, Liz, Jenna & Val (not pictured),

All were Certified Bonsai Basic instructors this past week at the GSBF convention.

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Peter Macasieb the Shohin Master

Bonsai Fast Forward