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Omono
As many of you know by now, I have had a lot of time on my hands this last month! I have tons of bites on bass students and a couple already signed up for January - but nobody is really looking to sign up for music lessons the week before Christmas, so my mind has turned to my bonsai efforts. To my knowledge, I am only one of two guys practicing bonsai in my county - I have to make the 1.5 hour trip to Nashville for any tree workshops or club meetings. I have really wanted to raise awareness around my area of the Bonsai culture as I have yet to run into anyone who learns I do this and doesn't have a million questions. I've talked a big game of putting on a presentation in my area next year and I am getting to work on it. I should be able to get a room and projector at our local library in May and hopefully I can get the time to do two 45 - 60 minute presentations on Bonsai in general and point people toward Nashville Bonsai Society and my local Facebook page and see if anyone else around here catches the bug. Long term plan being a local study group and possibly 6 to 10 people who would be willing to foot the bill for some local workshops. I would love some feedback from this community on my basic outline and any suggestions would be welcome. So far I have 5 sections, with around 10 minutes give or take on each section. I'll be expanding each section into power point slides, the outline below is just the topics.
I. What is Bonsai?
I. What is Bonsai?
- Tree characteristics
- Pot Characteristics
- Horticulture and Art (Basically showing pictures on this bullet point)
- Chinese Penjing
- Japanese Bonsai
- Western Bonsai
- Common Tree Types
- Outside vs. Inside
- Tools and Wire
- Soil
- Formal Upright
- Informal Upright
- Broom
- Slanting
- Windswept
- Bunjin
- Open Q & A
- Nashville Bonsai Society info / Upper Cumberland Bonsai (my FB page) Info
- Key Websites for further research
- My contact info