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Top;
Evergreen Bonsai Award
Finest Evergreen Bonsai
Wild Olive
Olea Oleaster
Frank Cuchiara

Bottom;
Deciduous Bonsai Award
Finest Deciduous Bonsai
Sharps Pygmy Maple
Acer palmatum ‘Sharps Pygmy’
Sergio Cuan

Exhibitors spent decades training their best bonsai
for the exhibition and a lot of time refining and pre-
paring for their formal display. This was quite evident
in the 175 display areas. In total there were 320 indi-
vidual bonsai, including 40 shohin bonsai composi-
tions with 120 small size bonsai. Over 125 species and
plant cultivars were displayed which is representative
of the trees trained for bonsai in our country.
Photos of over 260 bonsai were submitted for the se-
lection process and 180 were accepted. A few dropped
out at the last minute because of weather damage or
transportation difficulties. Since bonsai are alive and
subject to weather this is to be expected. We still needed
to add nine more tables at the end of set up. It’s a good
thing we have extra backgrounds, skirting as well as ta-
ble covering. But, we still needed to purchase additional
table coverings of a different color during the set up.
Equally important and of the same size as the Ex-
hibition, the vendor area had more than 100 tables
full of everything you could ever want to create and
appreciate bonsai. There were seedlings to develop
masterpiece bonsai, tools, wire, soil, containers, dis-
play tables, suiseki, scrolls, books, magazines, jewelry,
clothing, other art and more. There was something for
everyone. Vendors from California, Florida, Vermont,
Minnesota, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, New York as well as Canada, came to offer
their finest for sale.
The lecture/demonstration on creating a bonsai,
bonsai refinement, ikebana, Chinese brush painting
and suiseki were well received and there was standing
room only. After setting up the demonstration area on
Thursday, I called and ordered another 100 chairs for

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