The Columbus Bonsai Society

This is a great article explaining the use of acidic fertilizers and vinegar to counteract the effects of hard water.

http://www.bonsai4me.com/AdvTech/ATHard%20Water%20pH%20and%20Bonsai.html

 The show flier pdf is attached.

http://crataegus.com/2013/03/14/tips-for-repotting/

Please remember that the Columbus Bonsai Study Group - inaugural meeting is Wednesday March 27, 6:30-9:00 PM @ Franklin Park Conservatory

The Columbus Bonsai Society will have a booth at the Dawes Arboretum Arbor Day Festival on April 27, 10 AM - 4PM.  We will be conducting continuous demonstrations on bonsai and we plan to be offering beginner bonsai plants for $15.

http://dawesarb.org/

Beginner's Class at Oakland Nursery (Oakland Park Ave. location)

$45

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I was at Strader’s Nursery on Rte. 33 and Bethel, in November and discovered their herbs stored away in the large greenhouse.  I started looking at the Rosemary because they were blooming, then I noticed some lavender with bloom heads pushing.  I guess they were responding to the warmth of the unheated greenhouse as the Rosemary in my collection had in my unheated greenhouse.  I found both a Rosemary and a Lavender that had interesting “trunks” and since they were on $2.99 each, I bought them both.

The last article about larch on our website is dated April 2006 and was from a 1996 article created by Pine Garden Bonsai.  I thought it was past time to put an Ohio spin on this tree care fact sheet.  Larch is such an interesting conifer.  They are deciduous like Redwood and bald cypress that lose their foliage in the winter.  The Japanese love larch, the English love larch and Americans love larch.  Each native species is a separate species.  Each has slightly different “needle” size.  The needles are soft to the touch.  The cones,