NEW LOCATION – Trinity United Methodist Church. Address is 5613 Western Ave. Knoxville, TN 37921
Welcome all our new members from the Beginner Juniper Workshop in April!
Bring your trees if you need help with. You can trim deciduous trees, do defoliate on your maple trees, trim your tropical and conifer. If you put wires on your maple back in the spring, it maybe time to remove them.
Club Sales – We are planning to have a club sales on June 13th at our June meeting. Members can bring any bonsai related items (trees, pots, tools, wires and books) to sell to the club members. The Club will keep 10% of the sale.
Welcome back KBS Members and New Members for 2024!
We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming meetings, please see schedule below and check back often for updates or changes. Be sure to keep your trees protected from the January east Tennessee winter storms in an unheated garage or lean-to!
1 – Jan 13 meeting at Stanley’s Greenhouse – from 10-12 noon.
2 – Pot making workshop with John Cole on Saturday, January 27 – contact us for more details!
3 – Feb 10 meeting at Stanley’s Greenhouse – New time is from 12-4.
4 – Feb 17 – Free Trident maple workshop at my house from 10-4. This is good time to do grafting, re-potting and trimming on trident. If your trees are outside and frozen, bring them inside to an unheated area at least a week before the workshop. Bring your own materials. I have some seedlings you can buy to do your grafts.Workshop is free to paid 2024 members. Will take donation and all donated money will to the club.
5 – Mar 2 workshop – Details TBD.
6 – Between early march to mid march lots of deciduous trees will be budding out. Just before the buds open, (and this is only suggestion) you can spray the trees with copper mixed with water to control fungus. You can buy premixed or mix 1 tablespoon per 1 gallon water.
7 – Mar 16 – Meeting from 10-4. Bring your trees for spring works and re-potting. We will go a little long bc I am sure we have lots to do.
8 – Mar 17 – Atlanta Bonsai is having their show the weekend of Mar 16 and 17.
9 – Mar 23 – Workshop – details TBD.
10 – April 13 – Meeting from 10-2. You still can re-potting conifer, Juniper. Too late on deciduous.
11 – April 13 and 14 – Chattanooga’s show this weekend at Camp Jordan. We are invited. More info later.
12 – May 11 – Deciduous air laying workshop from 10-2. You also can do defoliate on your deciduous trees. By this time the leaves are harden off and can do trimming/defoliate on them.
13 – June Meeting. Date and place to be confirmed. Either June 1 or 8. Tropical workshop with Dan Crossley.
14 – I am looking to planning a trip to NC Arboretum in the fall and see if Arthur Joura (Curator there) will give us a tour/lecture on their facility.
15 – Planning a fall workshop with Bonsai Pro in the fall.
16 – If you have not send in your 2024 membership. Please do so soon. You can wait until next Saturday to pay at the meeting. We can not function without you guys commitments. Thanks to those have already sent in.
We want to welcome KBS Members and New Members a Happy New Year! It is coooold in Knoxville, TN this January, be sure to protect your trees from the winter weather, snow, and ice.
Check out our schedule of upcoming KBS Meetings, Workshops (spring will be busy!) and Bonsai Shows around the East Tennessee region. Check back often for updates, or Contact Us to be added to the monthly email list.
Meeting is this Saturday, Oct 23, from 10am to 1pm – Contact us for details!
Please bring your trees to work with. We will be there to help. You can bring conifer, tropical and deciduous. Please bring your tools and wires. We would like to teach/demo on wiring. We will have some juniper and deciduous branches and you guys can practice on wiring a branch!
1 – Meeting is this Saturday, July 17, from 10 to 1 and it will be at Mark and Pat Phillip’s place. Contact us for address/location. It is also Mark Birthday so we will have cake and ice cream! 2 – Please bring trees if you need help. 3 – The show preparations are going well and I have some updates: a. We have about 30 spaces for KBS members to display their trees. b. 6 spaces for Beginner trees. This is filled and the names of the people committed are Matt, Carol, Arvind, Joe. Q, Noah and Julian. Thank you. c. 24 spaces for KBS Members. Again as for right now I would like each Member to commit at least one tree and the names of the people committed are Dat. Tom, Wes,Jeff, Jacob, Dean, Randall, Gary, Noah, Amy, Mark, Mike, Kathy, Ryan, Ian, Shannon and Dan. Thank you so much. So I have 17 people committed. I need 7 more people. If your name is not on the list, please let me know by the end of July 18 by Contacting Us
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d. If I don’t hear from you, Then the committed people can add second tree. If I don’t have enough, then committed people can add third tree. and so on until spaces are filled. 4 – Set up and take down is on Friday & Sunday and people committed to help set up are Julian, Dat, Noah, Ken, Mike and Arvind. If you would like to help, please let me know. Set up is from 4 to 7. Rental will be bring the tables about 3. Take down is on Sunday right after the show ended which is 3 PM. 5 – I want to thanks Julian and Sandi for helping out by contacting Restaurant for the dinner on Saturday night. 6 – Dinner on Saturday night will be right after Bjorn’s critique and It will (as of right now) in the same bldg in the room where the workshop will be. Bjorn’s critique is from 5:15 to 7:00. The cost for the dinner is $20 per person. Cash or check only. It will be catering by Calhoun’s on the River. FOOD:Pork RibsGrilled ChickenSmoked Beef BrisketCole SlawBaked BeansBaked Spinach MariaRollsApple Crisp PieCoffee and Tea. We can bring our own Beers We need head counts . PLEASE LET ME KNOW BY EMAIL, PHONE, TEXT BY END OF JULY if you want to fellowship/DINNER with us.
If you live in east Tennessee, enjoy the deciduous tree colors and be sure to keep your pots and roots from freezing in this late fall/early winter weather!
Join KBS Members and New Members at the Knoxville Botanical Garden in December (date TBD). More details will follow.
December Reminders: 1 – We need to start planning for the 20th anniversary show next year in Aug 28th and 29th.
2 – Hope some of you were able to sign up with Bonsai Empire for their courses.
3 – 2021 membership. If you have not renewal your membership, please do so this Saturday.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the 6th Annual Knox Asian Festival – it was a great success for KBS, displaying over twenty member trees, demonstrations, tree give-aways, and vendors!
We also gave out 400+ new KBS business cards, if you are interested in becoming a NEW MEMBER be sure to email Dat Tran and come to the next meeting this Fall:
Next meeting is next Saturday, September 7th, from 10-1 at Dat’s house.
October meeting is on Oct 5th from 10-1 and also at Dat’s house.
The 2019 Asheville EXPO Bonsai Show is coming up on October 12 and 13. This is the largest show on the Southeastern part of the US. It is at Asheville Arboretum.
Mauro Stemberger is coming to Knoxville again for workshop and it will be on Saturday, November 16, at my house from 9 to 6 with 1 hour for lunch.
November meeting will be on November 9 and it will be at Charlene’s place.
Please join KBS on August 25th at World’s Fair Park for the 6th Annual Knoxville Asian Festival!
KBS will have 25-30 member styled trees on display, juniper demonstrations with give-aways announced on Facebook, and NEW THIS YEAR vendor table selling beginner trees and other bonsai materials.
Join us this for this month’s KBS meeting Saturday, August 10th from 10am-1pm.
Get your trees ready to display at the upcoming 6th Annual Knoxville Asian Festival! Bring trees if you need assistance and tips for displaying your trees. We need members to bring 2-3 trees each (total 25-30 trees). We will have two vendor tables (Dat and Wes) and one area for demos (Eric and Volunteer). I also need volunteers to take shifts at the Asian Festival to watch trees and help with set up and take down.
KBS Member polo shirts have arrived! Bring your payment if you ordered your shirts. See you Saturday August 10th!
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