Sensei: Kunitoshi Akabane (925) 736-7600

President: Bob Evans (925) 820-0268

Editor: Daryl Bunch (925) 830-8790

All meetings held at Heather Farms Garden Center, 1540 March Banks Dr., Walnut Creek. 7:30 – 9:30 PM

Sunday March 5^th – Potting Session #2 – 9:30 am to 12 Noon at the Tassajara Nursery, 2550 Camino Tassajara, Danville (Take the Sycamore Valley Road east exit off I-680. The Nursery is approximately 2 miles east of I-680 on the right hand side of the street. When you arrive at the nursery, please park on either side of the street outside of the fenced parking area, so that the customers can park inside the parking lot.

If you did not make it to the February 12^th potting session, please try to make it to this one. Bring your own bonsai tools and a piece of plastic to cover your worktable. Before you leave the potting session, please make sure you clean up around your work area and register the trees you have prepared and pots you have used with Renee McGowan. As a reminder, Basic Members are asked to donate two one gallon size trees and intermediate members two - five gallon trees. You can bring your own trees from home or trees will be available at the nursery for you purchase. The club will furnish the plastic pots, wire and soil. The members are asked to furnish the trees.

The intent of the potting session is to prepare the trees to be donated to the plant sale at the October Show. Experienced members will be available at the potting sessions to help the basic members with their trees. It is a good learning experience and also helps you get your trees ready for the plant sale.

A reminder to intermediate members, please consider doing a group planting as one of your donations. They have sold well in the past and at good prices.

Also, the ceramic pots by Tad Kikugawa will be at the potting session for any members who wish to donate accent plants at the plant sale.

March 25^th and 26^th – Millennium "Garden Exhibit" at the Tassajara Nursery, Saturday 9:00 am to 4:00 PM, Sunday 9:00 am to 3:00 PM. Diablo Bonsai Club will have a booth in this first time event along with many other garden accessory and specialty suppliers. We will need volunteers to help out at the booth both days. Sign up sheets will be at the monthly meetings.

Please welcome the following new members:

Frank and Joanne Reyes of Clayton.

With the weather warming up, if you haven’t completed your repotting, do so immediately. Concentrate on doing your deciduous trees first, conifers can be done a little later. Also, remember you do not fertilize trees that have just been repotted for at least a month or six weeks.

If you have anything for the newsletter, bring it to class or forward it to Daryl Bunch. We welcome any write-ups or articles from members on topics that would be of interest to other members.