Kusamura Club Calendar
June 2008
• June 20—Working with Olives—Jerry Carpenter
July 2008
• Pine Workshop with Lonnie McCormick
August 2008
• Northern Collection Work Day instead of the meeting. See News section - TBA

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Other Events
Kinshu Bonsai Award
APPLICATION and SUBMITTAL:
All requests for information, application form, and rules, as well as material submittal should be directed to:
GSBF Bonsai Contest 2008

c/o Monte Weiss  
222 Grand Avenue  Suite E
Long Beach, CA  90803
monteweiss@lorilamont.com
562.897.1855

DEADLINE: Entries must be submitted with a postmark no later than July 31, 2008. RULES: Rules are the same as the previous year. Please note that any past Gold certificate winners are ineligible to enter.

October 30-November 2 Modesto, California Golden State Bonsai Federation: Convention XXXI at the Doubletree Hotel Modesto and the Modesto Centre Plaza, 1150 Ninth Street.  Featured headliners are Boon Manakitivipart, Martin Schmalenberg, and Tak Shimazu.  Enjoy Exhibits, Demonstrations, Workshops, Vendors, Field Trips, Design Contest, Critiques, Raffles & Auctions, and Banquet.

More Events
(from Golden State Bonsai Federation)

Tree of the Month

Originally a large 4’+ group of untrained limbs; this was styled by Marco Invernizzi for me last winter. We are working to encourage the shorter controlled growth of the main trunk and keep a few side trunks of interest. This tree will be repotted during our meeting.

*Collection-Connection is available via subscription for $5 from the GSB Northern Collection. The newsletter keeps you informed of valuable information on tree culture and other educational tips. A copy is mailed to Kusamura monthly or visit the N.C. website.

June 20, 2008 MEETING
Special Hours: 7–9:30pm Demonstration
This will be a lecture and demonstration on “Working with Olives” by Jerry Carpenter. He will be assisted by Sandy Planting who will build an Olive rock planting that will be available as a raffle prize at the end of the evening.

Show and Tell this month will feature your Olives and other seasonal trees.

Refreshments for June will be provided by: Jim Ransohoff and Janet Rafvem.  If you cannot make it, please be sure to call for a replacement.

News
Officers!
Officers were elected at our May meeting but take office in July. Here is a list of the officer and positions for the new board:

Barbara Murray
Barbara Shahinian
Lonnie McCormick
Michael Greenstein
Joan Rock
Suresh 'Mo' Mohan

The Officers to lead the club are:
President: Charlene Fischer
VP - Stephanie North
Recording Secretary: Dave Curbow
Correspondence Secretary: Jerry Carpenter (Continuing)
Treasurer - Helen Reist (Continuing)
Past President - John Planting

Board Notice: The August outing this year will be a day at the Golden State Bonsai Northern Collection, as a work day for the collection. Many clubs go as a group to the collection to work in the collection doing grounds work, weeding trees, and general maintenance as needed. Kusamura will give its August meeting for this purpose. For those of you who have never been there or not recently at least, this will be a great occasion to see a crown jewel of the bay area and get a feel for volunteering at the garden.

Working on Old Growth Olives at the GSB Collection North

I recently had a chance to work with Kathy Shaner at the Northern Collection on this lovely olive. Frances Noles is the foster parent of this tree and we worked on this as well as an old oak that day that I care for.  Kathy showed us how to remove a lot old wood from the bottom of this tree. Many Olives have been saw cut flat and repotted like this one was.

It required a hammer and chisel to remove the old dead flat wood to allow more root growth under the tree. Here you see Kathy cutting heavy roots and working to brush out the fine roots to prepare it for potting. Be sure to get a copy of the Collection-Connection* to read more about working with these old growth trees.

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