9th ANNUAL PSBA BONSAI TREE AND SUISEKI AUCTION SATURDAY JUNE 7, 2014

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1 Puget Sound Bonsai Association PSBA News Clippings May, 2014 P.O. Box 15437, Seattle, WA Volume 41 Number 4 9th ANNUAL PSBA BONSAI TREE AND SUISEKI AUCTION SATURDAY JUNE 7, 2014 Check out the club on the Web at Current and past newsletters are available on that site. There are lots of exciting changes on the web site. PSBA's 9th annual auction will again be held at the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection in Federal Way Saturday, June 7 from noon to about 4 pm. Special thanks go to Dave DeGroot and Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection for being our host. CREDIT CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR PURCHASES MADE AT EITHER THE SILENT OR THE LIVE AUCTION. The editor welcomes articles for inclusion in future newsletters. Send them to: morgia@centurytel.net. Be sure to read Ken Wassum s Now Is The Time article on page 5 Save the date: October 3-4 is the annual Pacific Northwest Bonsai Clubs convention to be held in Victoria, B.C. Get your passport or enhanced driver s license so you can attend this convention. Watch the NC for more details in a future issue. New member workshop has been rescheduled for June 1st at Bonsai NW. Don t forget the stone show at Pacific Rim, now through June11. Don t forget the auction is right around the corner. See pages 1-3 for details. NEW THIS YEAR THIS YEAR, SELLERS AND BIDDERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO REGISTER AND OBTAIN A NUMBER TO TRACK BOTH THEIR PURCHASES AND THEIR SALES. LIVE AUCTION TREE SELLERS WILL BE ASSIGNED A NUMBER IN ADVANCE, SO ASK FOR IT AT REGISTRATION. SILENT AUCTION SELLERS CAN SET A RESERVE OF NO MORE THAN $100 AND THEY CAN SET A BUY IT NOW PRICE OF THEIR CHOICE. SILENT AUCTION SELLERS SHOULD BRING ITEMS TO THE AUCTION BY 12:00 NOON AND FILL OUT THE FORM AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS TEXT WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR ITEMS. IF TWO SILENT AUCTION BIDDERS ARE AFTER THE SAME ITEM, THEY CAN ASK FOR A MINI-LIVE AUCTION 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE SILENT AUCTION CLOSES.

2 Page 2 For the Silent Auction. Please consider making a donation of bonsai related items to the club for inclusion in the silent auction. All proceeds from these items will be donated to the club. Alternatively, you may sell up to 5 items in the silent auction with 15% of the proceeds going to PSBA as a donation. There will be no charge for reserves that are not met in the silent auction; however, silent auction reserves cannot exceed $100 per item. Please bring silent auction items on the day of the auction by noon, get a seller/buyer number, and fill out the form (see below) with a description of each item, the reserve price if applicable, the buy it now price and your name and seller number. This information will be transferred to the bidding sheet by the auction organizers. For the Live Auction. We will have up to 80 trees and 3 viewing stones in the live auction. We are accepting no more than 5 live auction items per club member. Please note that 15% of the final auction price will be retained by the club as a donation. You may set a reserve price for your tree, but you will need to make a $15 donation to the club if your tree does not meet the reserve price (this does not apply to auction viewing stones). You will be expected to get your live auction trees to the Pac Rim lower greenhouse area by noon on Friday June 6. If you are coming from out of town or you cannot get them there by Friday, let Linda lbreeden@fhcrc.org know. Make sure trees are labeled with your name and species name on a water proof label affixed to the tree. As a live auction seller, you will be assigned a seller number, so when you arrive at the auction, ask the registrar for that number. That will be your number for your buying and selling at the auction. Those of you who wish to submit trees for the live auction may do so by ing Doug Bradley (bradley166@comcast.net) and/ or Linda Breeden at (lbreeden@fhcrc.org). Please also submit a short description of the tree, including any outstanding characteristics, such as age, where collected, how long in bonsai training, pot details, etc. Photos would also be helpful and may be used to advertise the event. Live auction tree details MUST BE SUBMITTED before May 23 th. Please note that the live auction is filled on a first come first served basis. AUCTION Silent Auction Seller Number # (option al) ITEM# Seller Name Reserve Buy NOW Description of items Price Price NUMBER If you plan to bring items for the silent auction, please fill out this form and bring it by 11 am to the Pacific Rim along with your item(s) for the silent auction.

3 Page 3 Some Samples of Trees Offered in the Live Auction: 2014

4 Page 4 Free Viewing Stone Show Now through June 11 Lofty mountain ranges. Ocean tide pools and coastal outcroppings. A waterfall pouring down a steep peak. Stately arch formations. It s amazing the different shapes that stones can take when they are exposed to rushing water, sand and wind for thousands of years These and other stones are included in the Viewing Stones Interest Group s Stone Images V show at the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection in Federal Way. The show runs through June 11 and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The surfaces of viewing stones also can reveal unexpected surprises. This year s show of more than 30 different stones also includes stones with a whale and another with a baby dragon affixed to their surface. Other stones depict a limb of a weeping cherry in bloom and a full moon. And for animal lovers there is even a stone that resembles a bison. Stones for this year s show were selected by a three-person panel made up of David DeGroot, Howard Miller and Rick Klauber. Edd Kuehn and Patrick Metiva designed the show. The Viewing Stone Interest Group is affiliated with PSBA and people interested in learning more about this art form or going on a collecting trip to find stones are always welcome. Collecting trips probably will start in July, once our perpetual rainy season finally ends and water levels drop in Washington streams and rivers. For more information about the group please contact Edd Kuehn Eddkuehn@aol.com.

5 Page 5 Now is the Time: April 2014 By Ken Wassum There never seems to be any shortage of work to do on my trees. I recently spent a couple days with my teacher, Boon Manakitivipart, and as always learned a lot. We worked on both deciduous and pines, thinning them, wiring and candle pruning. This trident maple has an interesting, gnarly trunk that has decent movement and lots of branches. The first thing to do was to thin it out and make some branch selections (left). When I repot I will rotate the tree a bit counter-clockwise, for a slightly better front (right). Next came a cork-bark black pine that I have been working on for several years now. It is a vigorous tree and always seems to respond well to candle pruning and thinning, which is exactly what we did. Actually, to be completely honest, the winter weather played a role in the thinning process. In December we had some strong winds down in the south sound and the tree blew off the bench and landed upside down. The top half of the tree broke but I was able to salvage most of it with some quick wiring and cut paste, but I did lose a portion on the left-front of the tree.

6 Page 6 Close-up of the tree before candle pruning and thinning: And after candle pruning with just the one candle remaining! And here is a shot of the one candle left on the tree, which will be the new top in a couple years!

7 Page 7 After-care for the maple will include regular feeding to continue to develop the branch structure. The tree is not in a refinement stage yet, so fertilizer is needed. After-care for the pine will be to not feed it again for a couple months while the new buds emerge from the pruned candles. The pine is in a refinement stage, and this approach will help to keep the needles in scale with the size of the tree. By fall the tree will be full of lush new needles and may be ready to show in a year or two. Have fun!

8 Page 8 SAVE THE DATE! PSBA ANNUAL SUMMER POTLUCK SUNDAY JULY 20 TH, :00-5:00 PM Center for Urban Horticulture All PSBA members and your families are welcome for great food, bazaar, and informal fellowship. Watch this space for more details. Bonsai Tip By Margaret Holton Several years ago I bought from a catalog some pieces of a flat substance, mesh with a puffy plastic overlay, to keep things like bonsai from skittering around in the back of the car. Last month, as I was taking out my little cart to transport a couple of bonsai, I grabbed a couple of those pieces to use on the cart; one beneath the improvised deck and one on top. They worked beautifully, up and down hills and curbs. I've subsequently found the stuff in rolls in stores. It's called tool box drawer liner at Lowe's and extra grip shelf liner at Storables.

9 Spring Show Report Page 9 By Pat Negron I want to thank everyone who helped with setup of the show, with the exhibit of their trees and with the take down and clean up of everything. Thanks to all helpers as you know we cannot do anything without the volunteers of PSBA. David was very pleased with all those who helped him with the exhibit area, and with the cleanup. He said they were all a great help. Since this was our first annual show of bonsai by members of PSBA at Pacific Rim Bonsai, I think it was as successful as it could be since we did it so early in May and many members did not have their best trees in good form to put in the exhibit. I want to especially thank David DeGroot for all his help. We could not have had our show without your help, David. As a side note, we made around $400 on plant sales. Sincerely, thanks to all. (Pictures are from the show.)

10 Puget Sound Bonsai Association June 1 New Member workshop contact Elsa Durham Phone: psba.us June 7 PSBA s Annual auction at Pacific Rim Collection in Federal Way The PSBA News Clippings Is published nine times each year by the Puget Sound Bonsai Association: P.O. Box 15437, Seattle, WA The newsletter is published in order to share general information about bonsai techniques, events, and other items of interest to members.. If you are not receiving copies, please contact Sally Montejano (sfumikom@gmail.com) June 24 July 20 Greg Brenden will demonstrate Kusamono plantings workshops to be determined PSBA CUH 1pm-5pm Editor: Morgia Belcher or morgia@centurytel.net Assistant Editor: wanted someone to do this job! Production Editor: Jana Loyd Mailing Labels: Sally Montejano (sfumikom@gmail.com) October 3-4 PNBCA Convention in Victoria, British Columbia Questions about the publication should be directed to the editor. Permission to reprint articles is granted to other bonsai clubs for use in their publications, except where expressly prohibited or noted herein. News Clippings P.O. Box Seattle, WA