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[IBC] Boxwood Question
I have two urbanly collected Buxus sempervirens or
English Boxwood in my collection. I collected them from the front yard of my house. They did take a while to develop, but they have been rewarding to watch. This is hedge material, it can be pruned to within an inch of its life and recover. It can sprout new branches from old wood. I like it as a bonsai material. My club, Kusamura Bonsai in Palo Alto, CA has an annual show. We create sale trees to sell and pay show expenses. This year we have a couple of young landscapers in our club. They had a client that wanted to get rid of some boxwood. So the night before a planting party, they dug them up. Nice 1 to 1.5 inch trunks with excellent nebari. I had the opportunity to work with several of these. They shaped up quickly and will be wonderful trees in about 5 years or more. These trees and consignment trees from private collections will be on sale at our annual show held April 23 & 24th at De Anza College in Cupertino California. We will be across the street from the Cupertino Cherry Blosson Festival. So you can get two events in on outing. Demonstrations will be held at 1:30 pm each day with a benefit drawing for the demo tree and other plants afterwards. Our demonstrators include Sandy Planting, who, as a nursery man's daughter has been working with green material since childhood. She has a vast knowledge of how things grow and adds this knowledge to her excellence in the art of bonsai. She will share the stage with Lonnie McCormick on Sturday and Jim Ransahoff on Sunday. Lonnie has done regular and extensive studies with his bonsai achieving some excellnet results, especially with collected material. Jim Ransohoff is another club veteran who has been a landscape architect as well as having an excellent bonsai collection. He has a donated planting in the collection at Lake Merit in Oalkand. I don't thing these demonstrators would be offended if I say they have over 150 years of experience between them. I hope to see some of you at the show as I am the show chair this year. Kitsune Miko aka Sandy Vrooman (which is another long story for another time) ===== "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princes(ses) who are only waiting to see us act just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that needs our love." -- Rainer Maria Rilke ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by John Quinn++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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