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LABS 2010:
A Day of Bonsai in Baton Rouge
On Saturday, 17 July 2010 we traveled to Waddill Wildlife Refuge in Baton Rouge to attend LABS 2010 hosted by the Louisiana Bonsai Society. Lowell Tilley and the LBS crew put on a fun day of bonsai which was well attended by members of every bonsai club in the state as well as Mississippi. Featured artists were Guy Guidry and Joe Day.
We also had several vendors with a huge array of bonsai goods, including Greg LeBlanc of Black Bayou Bonsai here in Lake Chares, Byron Myrick of Moselle, MS, Allen Roach of Bonsai Mart in Pensacola, FL, Rob Fifield of Hickory Grove Nursery & Landscaping in Montgomery, AL, and a number of large potensai from LCBS which all sold!
LCBS Attendees: Don Pearson, Lisa Corley, Gene Lanclos, & Dennis Corley.
Lowell Tilley of LBS began with his presentation on Crape Myrtle Bonsai.
Next, Guy Guidry presented a demonstration and talk on juniper bonsai. Guy had three junipers from which to choose, and he made the art of choosing part of the learning experience.
Juniper #1 & Design Drawing Juniper #2 & Design Drawing
Juniper #3 & Design Drawing & final result!
After a nice lunch which was included in the $10 fee, we were treated to a presentation by Joe Day on Applying John Naka's Bonsai Techniques. (Since I was running the PowerPoint for several speakers, I didn't get to take any photos of their presentations.)
This was followed by LCBS's own vice-president and newsletter editor, Don Pearson, with a talk on Bonsai Soil.
Johnny Hardcastle and Boyd Snellgrove gave a great presentation on Air Layering.
Patrick LaNasa of the Mississippi-Gulf Coast Bonsai Society shared a video presentation he had produced on the North Carolina Bonsai Expo and Exhibit Bonsai from 2009.
The final presenter was Mitch Thomas of Eden Isles near Slidell who is a member of MSGCBS. Mitch showed us how he had made a very nice penjing of trees from a single tree he had obtained at the GNOBS auction last year. Very impressive work in such a short time!
The program concluded with raffle drawings and announcement of the winner of the Vaughn Banting Award (VBA) for 2010. This year's winner was Dawn Koetting of the Bonsai Society of Acadiana in Lafayette for her excellent shohin display.
Dawn Koetting & her Shohin Display
left to right: Japanese black pine, Ficus neriifolia, Chinese elm, Satsuki "Kozan" (top), Kingsville boxwood, and moss accent.
Japanese Black Pine by Guy Guidry Yaupon Holly by Boyd Snelgrove
Close behind in the voting were Guy Guidry's amazing Japanese black pine pair and a yaupon holly by Boyd Snellgrove.
Here are other bonsai in the exhibit:
Left to Right: bald cypress, bald cypress, Catlin elm, cedar elm, Chickasaw crape myrtle, and Green Island Ficus
Left to Right: hawthorne, root-over-rock juniper, juniper kengai, uncertain (?), and shohin display.
Left to Right: trident maple, VBA winning shohin display, and an overall end view of the exhibit.
Some overall views of LABS 2010
Joe Day Visit, Saturday, 25 July 2009
Joe Day of Mobile, AL returned to the Lake Charles Bonsai Society on Saturday, 25 July 2009 for a lecture-demonstration.
Joe demonstrating wound treatment. Joe and J.C. Herbrich
Xuan Day, Kevin Krenke, Mark Lee, Clint Hathaway, and Joe Day on 10 February 2001
Joe Day & his trident maple. Someday this will be a masterpiece bonsai!
BCI 2009 in New Orleans 19-21 June 2009
LCBS's own Greg LeBlanc was one of the vendors with his Black Bayou Bonsai
Don Pearson making a bid at the BCI Silent Auction table.
Here are some photos of the exhibit:
Bald Cypress Windswept Boxwood
Brazilian Raintree Joe Day's Boxwood
Cedar Elm, Ulmus crassifolia Cedar Elm
Buttonwood, Conocarpus erectus (This was the only Chinese Hawthorn, Celtis sinensis
GNOBS bonsai to survive in exhibit-worthy condition after Hurricane Katrina.)
Rob Kempinski's Ficus Microcarpa Nitida Rob's Florida Elm, Ulmus floridiana
Ginkgo biloba Guy Guidry's Han-Kengai Hackberry
Jaboticaba which belonged to the late Jean Smith Japanese Black Pine
Japanese Black Pine Korean Hornbeam
Juniperus prostrata Podocarpus
Alan Walker's Schefflera arboricola Alan's Cedar Elm
Charles Canfield's Trident Maple Yose-ue which won the Best of Exhibit Award
This same composition won the 2009 Vaughn Banting Award at LABS 2010 just the month before.
Guy Guidry and his Bald Cypress, "Twister"
LCBS Day of Bonsai with Guy Guidry, Saturday, 23 May 2009
The day began with an information packed lecture and demonstration of the techniques of air-layering by Guy. He demonstrated on a large trident maple and also had examples of other air-layer subjects.
Guy & the trident maple "before"
Guy assisted by Greg LeBlanc.
LCBS members observing Guy's demonstration: left to right: Gene Lanclos, Marvin Ettinger, Greg LeBlanc and Don Pearson.
The "after" photo of the air-layered trident maple.
After the lecture-demo it was time to eat. We had anything you could want for our picnic, because everyone contributed! With our tummies full, we then had our annual auction. In the past we have traditionally held the auction in November. After years of declining revenues, we decided to move it to May this year, and it was very successful. We raised more than double what we had last November and are now set for another year to bring in guest artists like Guy. A win-win situation!
Alan Walker getting ready to auction a nice Catlin elm group.
Our attentive auction crowd!
Left to right: Marvin Ettinger, Don Pearson, Lisa Corley, Sallie Shepherd, John Hammond.
Greg LeBlanc's Virginia pine (Pinus virginianis) Lisa Corley's yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria 'nana')
Alan Walker's Schefflera arboricola after leaf pruning for pre-exhibit grooming
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