ACBS Summer Exhibit At Akron's Stan Hywett Botanical Gardens

ACBS has partnered with the beautiful and historic Stan Hywett Hall and Garden this summer to be part of their "Art in the Garden" series of events.  The hall is famous its botanical gardens as well as its architecture.

Our club will have a month long display of tropical bonsai in the beautiful and spacious conservatory on the grounds from June 15th to July 14th. For the event the Stan Hywet greenhouse director Joe Mihalik created special stands of varying height from the trunk of a large spruce tree.  The stands are arranged in three and five tree groups, and display the trees against the neutral sky background of the greenhouse glass.  In addition the Gardens graphics department added signs with information and facts about the art of bonsai that were placed with each tree.

Because of the heat that can build in a summer greenhouse, only tropical bonsai were part of this

extended exhibit. Several tropical varieties are present, including several varieties of ficus, Brazilian rain tree, and Jaboticaba. Many trees in the exhibit are paired with miniature "mame" companion bonsai.  In addition to the tropical bonsai,  the club will exhibit a small number of pines and other winter-hardy species on two weekends when ACBS members will be present to talk with visitors and  some demonstrate the process of creating a bonsai from raw nursery stock.  Club members will be at the Stan Hywett conservatory on Saturday June 22 and Sunday June 23 from 10:00 to 4:00,  and also on Saturday July 13th and Sunday July 14 from 10:00 to 4:00pm.

We invite all of our internet friends and members of the bonsai community to visit our exhibition.
 Watch a short video tour of the exhibit on our youtube channel at this link.

ACBS Mini Show at Rohr's Nursery

It is always surprising how many interested people show up to talk about bonsai. This first full weekend in June was no exception as word got around that ACBS was displaying some of its and demonstration how bonsai can be created from ordinary nursery stock.

The nursery hosted the mini show in its neat out door gathering area, sort of a garden within the garden, where the club set up and did a little tree work. Emmett carved up a couple of 5 gallon size boxwoods to show how the process begins.  Members talked with visitors about such things as how to pick out a good candidate for bonsai from stock material, what species are good first time attempts and general care questions.
So relaxing--working on a tree with friends on a terrific June afternoon.