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www.joshuaroth.com President’s Message

Bonsai Tools arch for many of us is the time to repot

to Shape M I placed several olive stumps in sand and
and root prune our bonsai. Last summer,
decomposed gravel and covered them with plastic.
All but one successfully rooted and now I can begin
the Dream the process of repotting and the first steps in styling.
There are many fabulous olive bonsai here in southern
California, and I hope someday, to have one worthy of
displaying. Regardless if that happens or not, I always
enjoy being out of doors working on a tree or in my
stone room enjoying a newly acquired excellent stone. We now have contracts in place for the next four BCI
This will be another year of extensive travel for my conventions—2014 through 2017. These are one of
photo courtesy wife and I as we attend several major bonsai and stone the more important services that BCI provides for our
William Valavanis
As your experience with Bonsai grows, so does your events. We started the year in Tokyo in February members. Please join us at our next one in Australia.
need for higher quality tools. Joshua Roth offers where we attended the 88th Kokufu Bonsai Exhibition
in the newly renovated Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
tools for every level of interest, all made of superior in Ueno Park. It was another grand event with the A great team of international bonsai artists will be
materials and offered at competitive prices. best of the Japanese bonsai on display. The Nippon conducting demonstrations.
Suiseki Association (NSA) held a major week-long
You now have more options. NEW! exhibit of 168 stones and 15 accessory items, also at During this trip, I had the opportunity to visit the
venue for the 2015 convention. It is a beautiful site
this museum, during the second week of the Kokufu
Our original master brand, Joshua Roth, manufactured in exhibition. The new leadership of the NSA is to be for the outdoor exhibit of trees. The demonstrations,
lectures and stone exhibition will be directly across
Japan, features four grades of tools, from novice to master. congratulated on staging an outstanding exhibition the street at the Science center. This is in the heart of
that included the addition of special stones seldom
For more than 30 years, Bonsai enthusiasts have trusted seen before and the addition of several fine tokonoma Guangzhou (formerly Canton), an international trade
Joshua Roth tools to bring life to their Bonsai vision. displays. After Tokyo, we travelled to Taiwan to visit center in southern China. A few days later, Helen Su
We have added a new brand, Ryuga, which features top Mr. Chen Tsang Shing’s beautiful Wan-Jin Art Center and I met with Taiwan officials at the Wan-Jin Art
Center near Taichung to sign another agreement to
quality Bonsai tools manufactured in China to quality- near Taichung. Mr. Cheng has one of the largest and hold our 2017 convention in Taiwan.
controlled Japanese standards, both in Carbon Steel and finest collections of bonsai in Taiwan. We now have contracts in place for the next four
In May, we will travel to Manila in the Philippines
Stainless Steel. We are the distributor of Ryuga in the USA, to participate in the National Bonsai Exhibition. I will BCI conventions—2014 through 2017. These are one
Australia, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Brazil, join fellow BCI board member, Budi Sulistyo, as he of the more important services that BCI provides
Argentina, and Switzerland. These exceptional tools carry a conducts a demonstration and I will give a lecture for our members. Please join us at our next one in
two-year quality guarantee which provides free replacement on stone appreciation. We are hoping to inform Australia. A great team of international bonsai artists
for any quality claim on all Ryuga products. many bonsai enthusiasts in the Philippines about will be conducting demonstrations including Zhao

Order our original Joshua Roth or new Ryuga tools and the benefits of BCI. Immediately after this, we will Qingquan from China, Shinichi Nakajima from
Japan, Budi Sulistyo from Indonesia, and Nikunj
products today! fly to Beijing, China to participate in the opening of and Jyoti Parekh from India. In addition, a team of
a 100-tree exhibition of Lingnan style of penjing in
the capital of China. Then, August 21–24, 2014, we Australian bonsai artists will perform. Participants
For more information have our grand BCI convention in the Gold Coast, will have the opportunity to learn how to make a
Australia. I hope to see many of our members at this bonsai pendant using the lost wax carving and casting
visit www.joshuaroth.com or event. It promises to be another great convention. If techniques from the skilled jewelry artist Frank
e-mail [email protected] all goes well, we will return to Japan in November for Mihalic. Immediately after the convention, a fabulous
Call 1-800-624-4635 today for a free catalog and Taikan-ten exhibition in Kyoto. We do this because of post-convention tour provides the opportunity to see
some of the best known natural features of Australia.
the name of a dealer near you. our love of outstanding trees and stones and to help See and learn about bonsai and viewing stones while
spread the news about the strongest and most active
Outside the US, phone 1-541-791-5312. Most Ryuga tools come with a handy global organization promoting bonsai and viewing enjoying the company of hundreds of like-minded
Fax: 1-541-791-5337 zippered pouch. stones—Bonsai Clubs International. people from various regions of the world. Visit our
I am pleased to report to you that in the month of website at www.goldcoasdt2014.bonsai-bci.com to
February, two new contracts were signed for our 2015 learn more about this exciting event and to register
Joshua Roth — where and our 2017 BCI conventions. BCI board member for the convention.
artistic vision gains precision Helen Su travelled to Guangzhou China to join me Tom Elias, President
for a signing ceremony with Guangzhou government
Providing Superior Quality Tools officials and officers of the local penjing association. Bonsai Clubs International
to the Bonsai Community for Over 30 Years
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