October 2018 – IBA Newsletter
I cannot do justice to the history of our Fall show in Ames, but it goes back more than 25 years. To the best of my knowledge, Alan Magruder and Bill Todd organized our first show around 1992. Sometime later, I took the helm for a short period only to hand it over to Ivan […]
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September 2018 – IBA Newsletter
In August, Andy Smith of South Dakota, gave a workshop on collected trees to several Eastern Iowa club members at the Pavilion in Jones Park. SEPTEMBER 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
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AUGUST 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
This book has been in the works for some years now. To those who were aware of this and have been asking ad nauseam when it will be done, I now have an answer. Soon. AUGUST 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
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JULY 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
For medium sized trees place three or four bags around the trunk, halfway between the trunk and the pot edge. For larger trees, go with six or eight. Small trees only need one or two. These teabags should last about 6 weeks. July 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
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June 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
Problem: Your soil goes all over the place when you water. You put it on. You wash it off. Repeat daily. Problem: I just can’t grow moss. I have too much sun. I have too much wind. I have Robins (large, red-breasted, North American songbird that positively delights in stripping the moss off of pots […]
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May 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
On April 15, 2018, my husband, John, and I once again had the great pleasure of joining IBA members for Todd Schlafer’s Spring workshop in Indianola. May 2018 – IBA NEWSLETTER
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