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Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai 17th annual exhibit

June 21, 2011 by Jonas Dupuich

The Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai, or BASA, hosted their 17th annual exhibit on June 11-12, 2011, at the Lakeside Garden Center in Oakland, California. Despite the late season exhibit date, most of the satsuki were in full bloom.

Miyako

Satsuki azalea – Miyako

BASA encourages all of its members to show at least one tree in the exhibit. The material reflects this, ranging from starter bonsai to trees like the large Nyohozan below.

Nyohozan

Nyohozan

Nyohozan

Nyohozan flowers

Nyohozan

Trunk detail

Some of the tree were covered in blossoms. Satsuki are special because many varieties can produce different blossoms on the same tree.

Yama-no-Hikari

Peach-colored blossoms – Yama-no-Hikari

Yama-no-Hikari

White blossoms – Yama-no-Hikari

Yama-no-Hikari

Peach blossoms with stripe – Yama-no-Hikari

Yama-no-Hikari

Yama-no-Hikari

Rick Garcia of the North American Satsuki Bonsai Center provided an extended demonstration and generously answered all questions.

Demo tree

Wiring the demo tree

Late spring is a great time to remove all blossoms, cut back new growth, and wire young branches. I’ll bet most of these trees will get this treatment within the next couple weeks.

Satsuki - unknown variety

Satsuki – unknown variety

Chinzan

Chinzan

Juko

Juko

Juko

Juko

Kobai Nishiki

Kobai Nishiki

Kobai Nishiki

Kobai Nishiki

Kobi Nishiki

Kobi Nishiki

Kobi Nishiki

Kobi Nishiki

Kobi Nishiki

Kobi Nishiki

Satsuki can be displayed with accent plants like any other bonsai variety. One of my favorites had a very delicate blossom.

accent

Accent

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  1. یاسر says

    June 28, 2011 at 7:32 am

    beautiful

  2. gwendolynssky says

    June 29, 2011 at 5:28 am

    Very elegant bonsai.
    I like your blog very much~~

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