IBA Spring Show
Celebrate Easter weekend Earth Day together on April 19, and 20, at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden. We are expecting a crowd both of those days for the Iowa Bonsai Association Spring Show.
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February 2014 – IBA News & Muse
To understand the origins and significance of this phenomenon on Japanese material culture and even on bonsai leads one quickly to further reading in Japanese Bunjin Painting and Chinese Southern Sung painting (the origin of all things “literati”). Nineteenth century Japanese Bunjin aesthetics particularly looked back to the Southern Sung painters, poets, scholars, and even […]
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Januray 2014 – IBA News & Muse
In our hobby of bonsai, we strive to make our trees show the respect of age. We do our best to develop a thick trunk, good nebari, craggy bark, and we lower the angle of the branches. Then we look for a venerable old pot to further enhance our tree. Perhaps our tree now looks […]
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November 2013 – IBA News & Muse
Whenever I show a bonsai, I have a similarly developed story. It brings coherence to all the parts of the individual exhibit. Even when others don’t comprehend my story, it’s there, and it gives me great pleasure. Work on your internal story; bring life to your bonsai presentations. November 2013- DOWNLOAD THE NEWSLSTTER
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2013 Fall Show at Reiman Gardens
Reiman Gardens hosted the Iowa Bonsai Association Show on October 5 and 6. We displayed multiple styles of bonsai including examples of leaning pine trees, tropical material, temperate deciduous trees, group plantings (forests), and trees growing on rocks instead of in pots. Shohin, miniature bonsai of less than ten inches in height, was highlighted at […]
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October 2013 – IBA News & Muse
Today I know plenty of techniques, how to prune, how to fertilize, how to develop a tree from raw form, how to keep them healthy and growing i.e. and am still learning. Secondly the land to discover that seems endlessly open is the aesthetics and appreciation of bonsai as art. We all (most of us […]
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