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. 

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NEXT MEETINGS 

January 14 - start planning which trees we will bring to the show. Presenting winter silhouettes

February 11 - 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 20 - accent plants and show display PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE 3RD SATURDAY

 

June 10 - work on our trees

July 8 - TBD

July 23 Sunday only - annual exhibition at Munson in Easton Pribble Room, demonstration in Sculpture Grove

July 29 Saturday only - demonstrations in front area of Munson

 

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. 

 


 

Thank you Mark Arpag for another great lecture/demonstration! We are always grateful when you come and share your expertise.  

 

  


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. 

MORE PHOTOS >> 

 

 


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 

Treasurer Art Doremus

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