Is Bonsai F or You?
The Bonsai Club of Central New York puts on a bonsai show every fall, exhibiting the best work of our members. In December we sponsor a holiday dinner. In summer we hold our annual auction, following our annual picnic. At our meetings we provide a raffle table where members can obtain bonsai starter plants, supplies, pots, or other bonsai related items. Throughout the year, our members take the opportunity to promote and display bonsai at cultural and religious celebrations, garden shows, and other community events. Watch for details of our educational activities.
Iris Cohen 2009
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Bonsai (pronounced BONE-sigh) is more than just growing a small tree in a small pot. Bonsai artists call their trees living sculpture. A bonsai is the representation of a full-grown tree in miniature. Like other arts, it may be realistic, or designed to evoke the impression of a tree, a place, or a mood. Gradually, different styles developed, primarily based on forms in nature, such as a peaceful forest or a windy cliff. Today, the most highly prized bonsai are usually still wildcollected, but nurseries have developed techniques for pre-bonsai to emulate primitive origins. Although the art of bonsai has traditionally been associated with the Far East, it is now found throughout the world, with artists of each country putting their own cultural imprint on their own native or imported trees. Traditional bonsai were almost all outdoor temperate trees, but in recent decades the practice has extended to more warm countries. Knowledge about the use of tropical and subtropical plants has allowed fanciers in apartments and very cold climates to raise bonsai indoors during the winter.
The Bonsai Club of Central New York was organized originally as the Fayetteville Bonsai Kai in 1973, to encourage the art of growing bonsai. Here you can learn how to choose and train a nursery plant or collected tree into a work of art. The club usually meets on the second Wednesday of the month from September to November and March through May. Visitors are always welcome. In addition, workshops and field trips for members are held at various times. Every January, we offer a free clinic for those who received a bonsai as a holiday gift. We invite you to join us. Annual dues are $25 per person or $30 per family. For further information, call President Curt Drury, 315-2430212, or Iris Cohen, 315-461-9226.
The practice of growing trees in pots for spiritual or aesthetic reasons began in China and crossed the West China Sea to Japan some time before the Thirteenth Century. The first bonsai were mostly collected trees which had been dwarfed by climate and a harsh environment. They were generally found in mountain areas, often growing in rock crevices.
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