2007 BSF Convention in Delray Beach
Here are some photos from the convention which took place June 8 through 10 at the beautiful Japanese Morikami Museum in Delray Beach Florida.
Material from the Cypress workshop with David de Groot (There was an additional Cypress workshop with Guy Guidri too).
The Bucida Spinosa workshop had excellent material.
JJ and Richard Turner’s gorgeous Bougainvillea!
The Turners (Old Florida Bonsai Nursery in Vero Beach) raffled this excellent Portulacaria at their vending booth to their customers!!
Guy Guidry,assisted by Mike Rogers,giving a demo on Bucida Spinose.Did not catch the before picture,but when I saw the tree the day before it was more or less a “bush”..
Result…Guy the “eye”..
David de Groot’s Juniper demo and result.Later he additionally thinned out the apex area of the finished tree.
Notice the “match of the scetch”
Instructor scholarship winner,a Ficus nerifolia by Alan Carver from Jupiter,Fl.Congratulations Alan!
Runner up was Erik Weigert from Bookelia with a procumbens nana,Fl.Congratulations Erik!
Shimpaku by Vladimir Voursa,participant.
Buttonwood by Justin Michael,participant.
Fukien tea by Toby Diaz,participant.
Winner of the individual competition,Jason Schleigh.
Reggi Perdue,last year’s Instructor scholarship winner and Runner up Jason Schleigh with their “Pay back” demos on Buttonwood and Juniper.
And the results!
Ernie’s Root over Rock Seminar
My Juniper Care Seminar
David’s great tool sharpening demonstration during Vendors’ Night.He showed us the correct sharpening technique with waterstone and oilstone (Masakuni).
Sean Smith’s Tanuki demo during Vendors’ Night was fun!Note how he transferred rather boring juniper material!
Before..
And after..Sean would have liked to add an additional piece of “Applewood”to the base if the time allowed.He also conducted a tanuki workshop which I unfortunately missed.
Mary Miller critiquing the cypress exhibit.
More pics to come tonight!!Sorry,computer line was down..
The convention exhibit was basically planned to be a tribute to cypress trees (”Cypress Celebration”) featuring Joe Samuel’s painting of a cypress,which was also the convention logo.Unfortunately we lost Joe just months prior to the event.(Please check “A Tribute to Joe Samuels” at artofbonsai.org)
