For this newsletter, there are some very big bonsai events coming up that are worth highlighting. Hope you can attend some or all of them!

Shohin Convention

Friday-Sunday Feb 03-05, 2023

Hotel Mission De Oro
Santa Nella, CA 95322

This is the place for those small trees! Workshops and trees for sale. It only happens every 2 years, so don’t miss out on this one.

Workshops are still available. See their website, https://www.calshohin.org/, for more details.

Toichi Domoto—Western Hort Talk

By Nancy Schramm

Wednesday February 8, 2023 at 7:30pm
Garden House in Shoup Park
Los Altos, CA

Toichi Domoto is a name with significance to the bonsai community in the Bay Area. If you would like to learn more about the Domoto family, Western Horticultural Society would like to invite you to hear Eric Hsu’s program Of Heartbreak & Flowers: The Domoto Family & Their Horticultural Legacy in the United States.

The February 8th meeting will be held at the Garden House in Shoup Park, Los Altos at 7:30pm. For more information visit www.westernhort.org.

Sergio Cuan Golden Zoom

Friday February 17, 2023 at 6:30
Zoom

The Sergio Cuan Golden Zoom has been rescheduled to February 17, 2023 at 6:30. Zoom link to be shared via club email.

Sergio will share his advanced deciduous bonsai techniques followed by Q&A.

Mammoth Auction

Saturday (12pm-4pm) and Sunday (9pm-3pm)
February 18 and 19, 2023

Lakeside Park Garden Center
666 Bellevue Ave
Oakland, CA

The Mammoth auction is coming up! If you are looking for quality bonsai, sales, pre-bonsai, related items, this is the event for that. All proceeds help support the Bonsai Gardens at Lake Merritt. A preview of the auction trees are available online.

Volunteers are needed. Sign up online using the follow link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094FAFA62BA5FCC25-bglm.

Tree of the Month

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Tree Improvement program

Thursday February 2, 2023 at Midori Bonsai Club

Gerry Fields will be starting our 2023 program off with his wonderful Tree Improvement Program. Bring in that tree that you want some feedback on and we’ll take a look at it together.

Open Workshop

Thursday February 16, 2023 at Midori Bonsai Club

This open workshop will focus on repotting. Materials and help will be there for all your repotting needs.

UPCOMING BONSAI EVENTS

18th Biennial Shohin Seminar

Friday-Sunday Feb 03-05, 2023

Hotel Mission De Oro
Santa Nella, CA 95322

Every two years the CaliToichi Domoto is a name with significance to the bonsai community in the Bay Area. If you would like to learn more about the Domoto family, Western Horticultural Society would like to invite you to hear Eric Hsu’s program Of Heartbreak & Flowers: The Domoto Family & Their Horticultural Legacy in the United States. The February 8th meeting will be held at the Garden House in Shoup Park, Los Altos at 7:30pm. For more information visit www.westernhort.org. fornia Shohin Society organizes a Shohin Seminar in Santa Nella, California, where bonsai masters, teachers, students and general enthusiasts from all over the country gather to learn and share their love of Shohin bonsai.

The only event of it’s kind in the U.S. Every two years the California Shohin Society organizes a Shohin Seminar in Santa Nella, California, where bonsai masters, teachers, students and general enthusiasts from all over the country gather to learn and share their love of Shohin bonsai. The goal of the Seminar is two-fold

To provide a low-cost, learning-rich environment for those who want to learn more about Shohin bonsai, and to raise money for the Golden State Bonsai Federation’s Bonsai Collection. The Shohin Seminar is a major source of funding for the care and evolution of these collections.

2023 Kokufu-ten Japanese National Bonsai Exhibition

Feb 09-12, 2023

Tokyo, Japan

Kokufu-ten, is the largest and most prestigious bonsai event held in Japan.

Annual Mammoth Auction & Sale 2023

Saturday and Sunday, Feb 18-19, 2023

Lakeside Park Garden Center
666 Bellevue Ave.
Oakland, California

All proceeds support the GSBF Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt.

Saturday Bonsai live auction.

Sunday Large vendor sales and bargain sale of bonsai, pots and related items.

Download our flier for distribution at club events or local venues.

Bonsai-a-Thon 2023

Saturday and Sunday, Feb 25-26, 2023

The Huntington
1151 Oxford Rd
San Marino, CA 91108

Mark your calendar for Saturday & Sunday, February 25th & 26th, 2023.

Bonsai-a-thon at the Huntington! A weekend of festivities! We are working out the detail and will share information in the coming weeks. The hours indicated are estimates.

Thanks for your support. We look forward to seeing you.

American Bonsai Association, Sacramento (ABAS)

Saturday and Sunday, April 8-9, 2023
Apr 8, 10:00 AM – Apr 9, 4:00 PM

3330 McKinley Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95816

The American Bonsai Association, Sacramento’s (ABAS) 63rd Annual Spring Bonsai & Suiseki Show and Sale will feature headliner, Todd Schlafer of First Branch Bonsai. Demonstrations will take place both Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 PM.

In addition to a our quality exhibition, there will be a large vendor area and consignment sales area! A daily benefit raffle will include each day’s demonstration trees and many more bonsai and bonsai related items. A beginners workshop will be offered Saturday morning. For more information, check out abasbonsai.org or call Dodie Newman at 916-799-9575 or 916-801-4424

REBS 37th Annual Bonsai Show

Saturday and Sunday, August 26-27, 2023
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (4pm Sunday)

5401 Snyder Ln
Rohnert Park, CA 94928

The return of the Redwood Empire Bonsai Society hosting its 37th Annual Bonsai Show. New modern facilities with AC. Featuring the international renowned bonsai artist Ryan Neil as guest demonstrator.

GSBF Rendezvous

Friday, October 20, 2023

Hotel Mission De Oro
13070 CA-33
Santa Nella, CA 95322

Bonsai Sales • Auction • Workshops • Lectures • Community.

Capital City Bonsai Show

Saturday, October 21, 2023