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Top left; Natal Plum, Carissa
macrocarpa, Walter Buck
Top right; Colorado Blue
Spruce, Picea pungens, Will
Kerns
Middle left; Tsukomo Cypress,
Chamaecyparis psifera, Charlie
and Judy Sisk
Bottom left; Blue Atlas Cedar,
Cedrus atlantica ’Glauca,’ Mark
Mills
Bottom right; Dwarf Scots Pine,
Pinus sylvestris, Walter Buck

Facing Page: Top left; Colorado
Blue Spruce, Picea pungens,
Todd Schlafer
Facing Page: Top right;
Ponderosa Pine, Pinus
ponderosa, Larry Jackel
Facing Page: Middle; Rocky
Mountain Juniper, Juniperus
scopulorum, Todd Schlafer
Facing Page: Bottom left;
Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga
menziesii, Todd Schlafer
Facing Page: Bottom right;
Satsuki Azalea, Rhododendron
indicum, Mark Mills

Visiting guest artist programs
Fourth, I believe that we have greatly benefited
from our visiting guest artist programs. Generally, we
attempt to bring three to four guest artists per year
to our club. We ask each of them to present to our
members at a regular monthly meeting, and we now In addition, each time a guest bonsai artist visits, we
purposefully avoid the traditional “demo” format in also schedule an all-day workshop with him or her in
favor of a tree critique. Members bring one or more which members can receive hands-on direction and
trees to the meeting, and our guest addresses as many assistance in styling one or more trees. Workshops are
as he or she can during a two-hour meeting, identify- limited to no more than eight members, each of whom
ing opportunities and constraints afforded by a tree pay a nominal fee, and we also encourage new mem-
and suggesting a basic design direction for it. We find bers, many of whom are novices, to attend as silent
that members learn much more from this process, and observers—another great way to learn.
they take away observations that they can actually use
on a given bonsai.

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