SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR 8/16/15 FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY

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1 Columbus Bonsai Society PO Box 1981 Columbus, OH Questions to: Regular Club meetings on 3 rd Sunday of the month Meetings Start at 2:00 pm All are welcome to attend CBS Board meets 1 st Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm PICNIC TIME! SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR 8/16/15 FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY 1:45 PM SOCIAL TIME AND SETUP 2:00 PM BUSINESS MEETING 2:15 PM PICNIC/SALE/ AND PROGRAM

2 September 2015 Newsletter President Mike Thornhill Tree Curator Rick Wilson Director Emeritus José Cueto 1 st Vice President Zack Clayton 2 nd Vice President Denny Sackett 1 year Director Jack Smith 2 year Director Mark Passerrello 3 year Director Ben William Treasurer Richard Gurevitz Secretary Sandy Schoenfeld Librarian Beverlee Wilson Web Master A Pinch of this. The Teddy Bears have their picnic. Just bring your green and yellow basket, some food to share and your surplus bonsai items/ trees to sell or trade. Bring them to the education house in the middle of the Columbus location of Oakland Nursery on Sunday afternoon. We will gather together for some potluck style socializing and fellowship. Bonsai=Perseverance Rich Uhrick Inside this issue: Program Info 3 RABBIT HOLE 4 TREE OF THE MONTH 6 CARE GUIDE 8 Calendar of Events 10 Newsletter Editor Richard Uhrick Education Tom Holcomb Mark Passerrello See you on the 20th at Oakland Nursery. Columbus Bonsai Society PO Box 1981 Columbus OH ColumbusBonsai@hotmail.com Columbus Bonsai is a proud member of the American Bonsai Society and Bonsai Clubs International.

3 3 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER 2015 This Month s Program A TISKET, A TASKET. PICNIC AT OAKLAND NURSERY SEPTEMBER 20TH O kay, so I may be pulling out all the non-bonsai references to a picnic, but that is what we are having this month. The club is providing beverages, bring a dish to share pot-luck style. It will also be the annual Rummage Sale-bring your plant. tree/ horticulture/bonsai items to buy sell or trade with other members and guests. The Columbus Bonsai Society receives meeting space and other support and assistance from Franklin Park Conservatory and Oakland Nurseries UPCOMING PROGRAMS: DISCLAIMER The Columbus Bonsai Society Newsletter, is the intellectual property of the Columbus Bonsai Society. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without permission in writing from the Editor. Rich Uhrick, Editor Uhrick.richard@gmail.com TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2015 MAURO STEMBERGER OF ITALIANBONSAIDREAM.COM JOINS US FOR A SPECIAL WEEKNIGHT MEETING.

4 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR PRESIDENT. THE RABBIT HOLE H ello fellow club members, I m looking forward to seeing you all at this month s club picnic at Oakland Nursery. This is one of my favorite meetings of the year, I enjoy the fellowship and opportunity to sell and buy extra material from my fellow club members. The September meeting also marks the start of our club s election process for board members with the introduction and nomination of a slate of candidates. After two years as Club President I will be stepping aside and will not seek the job for a third year. Luckily there are plenty of qualified candidates who are willing to step forward and lead our club. The Board has worked hard to provide a wide variety of educational programs for your benefit over the last two years. We are currently working on the program schedule for next year. I have been soliciting ideas from club members on what they would like to see on the schedule and received some good input. If you would like to see something on the schedule for next year and have not had a chance to express your wishes, please find me at the picnic and let me know. A reminder about our upcoming programming, the club will host guest artist Mauro Stemberger at our November meeting. The date and time for the meeting will be a change from our normal meeting schedule. Our November club meeting will be on Tuesday November 17 th at 5:30 pm at Franklin Park Conservatory. Thank you again for allowing me to serve as your president for the last two years. I look forward to continuing my service to the club on the board and as the storekeeper. See you all at the picnic. Mike

5 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER A TALE OF THREE BLOGS. A t the August meeting I was asked about yellow leaves on a tree. I thought of several reasons for this but I forgot one, that as far as I know, we don't often consider in Columbus. Root aphids can often cause weakening, stunted growth, and yellow leaves on our trees. Root aphids are often confused with good mycorhiza growth but they are NOT a beneficial fungus symbiont. Root aphids tend to be wooly aphids, making it even harder to tell them from fungus on first glance. They are often hard to get rid of as well and the damage is often complete before it is diagnosed. Fortunately, Jonas Dupuich has several blog posts on how to recognize aphids, treatment and a follow up on the treated trees. His final results are still pending, but the preliminary observations are posted. In any event, there appears to be no damage from treatment, and some trees look to be recovered and thriving. The blog series are: Zack Clayton

6 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER TREE OF THE MONTH BOUGAINVILLEA B ougainvillea was one of the tropicals that I wrote about in 2009 as a flowering tropical used for bonsai. There s an article that Jose offered sometime ago on our club website. However, I couldn t find an article that covers Bougainvillea care. I have to confess that I sold the Bougie I had to Sarah before moving south, so I ll rely on a number of sources and my past experience on successfully keeping one alive in Columbus Ohio. Bougainvilleas are native to South and Central America which means that they are a tropical that needs winter protection. In nature, they are a woody evergreen vine. At Disney World I ve seen them used as a hedge and as a vine to cover a retaining wall. They come in a variety of colors, red, violet, orange, copper, white and fuchsia. There is a cultivar with variegated leaves too. The flowers are not made up of petals but are actually colored bracts which appear at the end of new growth. The true flower is a tiny white trumpet that appears at the tip of the bracts. They have two negative features, one is that they have thorns; the other is that because they are a vine, if you buy a starter plant it will take forever to thicken. Specimen Bougie bonsai are usually landscape salvage material. Cultivation: Temperature: While they are tropical (zone 9 and above) they can survive a frost but will lose their leaves and may go dormant. Their optimum growing temperature range is during the day and at night. Mine survived nicely in the basement under fluorescent lights during the winter. I suspect that the lights raised the temperature several degrees when they were on, so I got diurnal variation that triggered blooming. Lighting: I used 3 and 4 light fixtures with the timer giving them 14 hours a day while they were inside. Once the temperatures were above 60 they went outside until fall temperatures were below 55. Again they may drop their leaves moving in and out and won t have good leaf cover if they aren t getting enough light. Watering: Water when they are dry. When you do water make sure it flows out of the bottom of the pot to ensure deep root development. Bougies are reported to be drought tolerant and if you continuously over water, you ll get rootrot. Outdoors in the summer, you ll need to adjust your watering. One of my sources said that summer flowering is encouraged by letting them dry out to the point of wilting for 3-4 hours then water. But only do this once and flowering should follow within two weeks. Fertilizing: Bougainvilleas are acid loving, so use a Photo from Bonsaimary.com fertilizer that is for azaleas or camellias. Use it at half strength every two weeks. Pruning/Training: Because they bloom on new growth pruning should be done right after the old blooms fade. To a point shorter than the silhouette you re trying to maintain. Seal your cuts to prevent rot. The bloom cycle is 4-6 weeks, so a healthy Bougie will take lots of pruning. Each time you prune the plant should respond by creating multiple shoots, so selective thinning will be needed to maintain your foliage pads. Wiring is more difficult as the wood is difficult to bend once it lignifies. This hardness is noted by the use of deadwood on large specimen Bougainvilleas. Normally you won t wee deadwood on a tropical plant as it would rot quickly. This also means you ll need to wire new growth before it fully hardens. Bonsai styling may be informal upright, cascade, twin trunk and literati. Pests: They are susceptible to fungus so spraying with a fungicide is good prevention. You should also watch for aphids and scale. Use the Bayer systemic regularly. In the summer I sprayed mine with Orchard spray when I sprayed my apple trees. Repotting: It seems that Bougainvillea like to be pot bound so they may be repotted every 2-3 years. Repot in the spring when you see new growth, usually April June. A good mix is 25% Turf ace, 25% small lava rock and 50% potting mix. When repotting, do not prune the roots to severely. Remove only too long or woody roots that are circling. Keep as much of the finer roots as possible. Be careful, the fine roots can easily be ripped and damaged. Use a deep pot. Propagation: Cutting may be taken in the spring (April- June). Air layering is also possible. Nurserymen use bottom heat to promote rooting. Keep tem moist. Cuttings 2-12 may be rotted. A popular variety for bonsai is Pink Pixie as it has smaller leaves. B. glabra is also used for its shinny darker green leaves and magenta bracts.. Ken Schultz

7 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER President Mark Passerrello mpasserrello@rocketmail.com Director Emeritus José Cueto jrcueto@hotmail.com 1 st Vice President Zack Clayton zclayton@yahoo.com 2 nd Vice President Denny Sackett sackeka@wowway.com 1 year Director Jack Smith 2 year Director Ben William jsmith4753@aol.com bensonkwilliam@gmail.com 3 year Director YOUR NAME HERE Treasurer Richard Gurevitz rgurevitz@aol.com Secretary Sandy Schoenfeld slschoenfeld7@yahoo.com Librarian Beverlee Wilson Beverleewilson777@gmail.com Web Master YOUR NAME HERE Newsletter Editor Richard Uhrick Uhrick.richard@gmail.com Education Tom Holcomb tholcomb@columbus.rr.com Mark Passerrello mpasserrello@rocketmail.com Tree Curator Rick Wilson rickwilson134@gmail.com Carolina Bonsai Expo Saturday, October 10, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, October 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The North Carolina Arboretum will host the 20 th annual Carolina Bonsai Expo Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11, Featuring juried exhibits by bonsai enthusiasts from a six-state region, a renowned bonsai marketplace, workshops, free demonstrations, and an ikebana exhibit provided by the Asheville Chapter of Ikebana International, the Expo is the premier annual bonsai event of the Southeast and the most popular plant show hosted by the Arboretum

8 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER HOW DO I CONTACT A BOARD MEMBER? A: HERE S HOW: BOARD MEMBER CONTACT LIST President Mike Thornhill cfdmike@aol.com Director Emeritus José Cueto jrcueto@hotmail.com 1 st Vice President Zack Clayton zclayton@yahoo.com 2 nd Vice President Denny Sackett sackeka@wowway.com 1 year Director Jack Smith jsmith4753@aol.com 2 year Director Mark Passerrello mpasserrello@rocketmail.com 3 year Director Ben William bensonkwilliam@gmail.com Treasurer Richard Gurevitz rgurevitz@aol.com Secretary Sandy Schoenfeld slschoenfeld7@yahoo.com Librarian Beverlee Wilson Beverleewilson777@gmail.com Web Master Amelia Harris apharris21@gmail.com Newsletter Editor Richard Uhrick Uhrick.richard@gmail.com Education Tom Holcomb tholcomb@columbus.rr.com Mark Passerrello mpasserrello@rocketmail.com Tree Curator Rick Wilson rickwilson134@gmail.com FROM THE CBS CARE GUIDE USDA Hardiness Zones 5-6 (5 Northern Ohio, 6 Southern Ohio) September - Early Autumn - 77/54 This is an ideal time to start root over rock plantings and other root development projects. The tree is starting to concentrate growth in the roots and use less energy on the foliage. Lower the nitrogen content of your fertilizer this month. Switch to a fertilizer. The lack of nitrogen slows foliar growth, which will force the branches to toughen up to deal with winter's wrath. This is the second best time for repotting. Once the leaves turn color, the tree is dormant. You may transplant deciduous after this. This is better done in the beginning of the month. This is a good time to collect wild trees. Bring tropicals back indoors towards the end of the month, or when temperatures consistently drop below 50 F at night. Spray your tropicals with pesticide before you bring them indoors. This may take multiple applications over a few weeks. Watch out for fall pests. Squirrels are especially harmful, as they are digging and foraging for winter.

9 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER From the Circulation Desk of the C.B.S. Library ***New Keyword Search and DVD & CD List - New **** The CBS Library Materials List is available on our CBS website's Library Tab. Sort, Filter and Search or Download the list. Click the link to the librarian CBSLibrary@hotmail.com to request materials. The librarians will bring the Materials to the Monthly Meeting. The Booklist has been updated with a Keyword Column to help you search. Scroll to the bottom to select the DVD & CD Tab Magazines are not included on the Website CBS Subscribes to 3 Quarterly Magazines. These are also available to be checked out Bonsai Focus: Bonsai & Stone Appreciation: American Bonsai Society: Check out the Magazine Websites for Forums, Videos, Tips & Techniques, Care Guides, Helpful Links, Seminars, Bonsai Societies, Supplies and Nurseries. If you are unable to attend the Monthly CBS Meeting/Workshop you can still check out materials...contact The Librarians - via the at CBSlibrary@hotmail.com Identify the materials you want to check out. Coordinate with the Librarians for a time to meet at the Oakland Park Nursery to check out the materials or if Oakland Park Nursery is not convenient, suggest another meeting location. We will make every reasonable effort to connect with you. The Librarians.. Librarian: Beverlee Wilson - H: Cell: Asst. Librarian: John Young CBSLibrary@hotmail.com Memberships may be paid for more than one year at a time.

10 COLUMBUS BONSAI SOCIETY SEPTEMBER Bonsai Here and Beyond the Outer belt Unless otherwise noted, The Columbus Bonsai Society meets the third Sunday of every month at 2:00 pm. Board Meetings are the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm. The board meetings are open to members. SEP 20 OCT 18 NOV 17 DEC 2015 [In the planning Stages Watch for updates] ANNUAL PICNIC AND MEMBER SALE OAKLAND SAIKEI/FOREST PLANTING FPC Mauro Stemberger FPC ANNUAL HOLIDAY DINNER PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NOVEMBER MEETING DATE IS THE 17TH A TUESDAY NIGHT. FPC= FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY OAKLAND= OAKLAND NURSERY, COLUMBUS LOCATION