MV Bonsai Club
Unless otherwise noted, our regular meetings are scheduled for second Saturdays, 1-3 p.m. at D'Alessandro's Nursery.
All MVBC meetings are open to prospective new members. Invite friends and share with them our love for bonsai.
NEXT MEETINGS
January 14 - start planning which trees we will bring to the show. Presenting winter silhouettes
March 11 - repotting demonstration to prepare you for repotting your trees
April 8 - Mark Arpag will take us through the nursery and discuss selecting nursery stock for bonsai; he will select a tree for the club and talk about next steps and making a plan to develop the tree
May 13 - work on our trees
June 10 - accent plants and show display
July 15/16 (TBC) - annual exhibition at MWPAI
Mohawk Valley Bonsai Club Mission | Providing opportunities to have fun while developing skills, the Mohawk Valley Bonsai Club is a forum for learning, inspiring, building knowledge, and connecting with the greater bonsai community.
Many thanks to Mark Arpag for a wonderful demonstration at our September meeting! The lucky winner of the club's tree styled by Mark
PHOTO BY RICK SHORT
Our 2022 Annual MVBC Exhibition at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute was a great success! Thank you to all who attended and club members who staffed and helped with setup and takedown of the show.
May 8, 2021 at the Deerfield Wilderness Town Park:
Thank You Mark Arpag for your review of member trees and demonstration/initial styling of our club Colorado Blue Spruce!
We also very much appreciated the trees you brought from your own collection in honor of World Bonsai Day — what a beautiful display.
A little inspiration from the Kokufu Bonsai Exhibition, February 2020 (photo C. Brown)
Award-winning Japanese White Pine, Pinus parviflora, at the Kokufu-ten, Tokyo, February 13, 2020
Award-winning Japanese Quince, Chaenomeles japonica 'Chojubai,' at the Kokufu-ten, Tokyo, February 13, 2020
KOKUFU-TEN PHOTOS BY C. BROWN
The Mohawk Valley Bonsai Club was invited to have a display table at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute members' opening reception for the exhibition Kimono! (June 9, 2018). We are grateful to MWPAI for this wonderful opportunity.
Some past meetings and items of interest:
Photos from our shohin roundup meeting:
A bonsai is considered a shohin if it measures approximately 20 cm or 8 inches from the top of the pot to the top of the tree.
The image below is from the Gafu-ten shohin exhibition which was held in Kyoto in January 2016. More shohin photos >>
Our thanks to Art Doremus for an interesting and informative presentation on insect and fungal problems — how to recognize and control them.
Reference links from the presentation:
fingerlakesbonsai.weebly.com/bonsai-info.html
www.bonsaiempire.com/basics/bonsai-care/advanced/pests-diseases
www.bonsai-and-blooms.com/bonsai-tree-diseases.html
nebonsai.com/home/pests-and-diseases/
Pre-bonsai search party at D’Alessandro’s Landscape Nursery, where we enjoyed a presentation on mugo pine by club member Doug Whitfield. More photos >>
(Below) January 2016; Chojubai (flowering quince) displayed in tokonoma at Kunio Kobayashi’s Shunka-en bonsai museum in Tokyo.
(Below) January 2016; flowering Ume (Japanese apricot) displayed in tokonoma at Kunio Kobayashi’s Shunka-en bonsai museum in Tokyo.
Browse the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum (Saitama, Japan) website:
Mohawk Valley Bonsai Club Mission
Providing opportunities to have fun while developing skills, the Mohawk Valley Bonsai Club is a forum for learning, inspiring, building knowledge, and connecting with the greater bonsai community.
The group first met in a park in July 2005 and has grown to include newcomers to the hobby as well as those with 20+ years of experience!
Club Officers 2023
President Deverie Hunt 18blackflowers@gmail.com
Vice Presidents Matt VanDuesen thevandeusens@gmail.com
Librarians Tyler Hunt and Christian Hunt
"The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make a bonsai look like a tree." — John Naka