Hello BSL Members,

Esther here…with a question for you all.  The newsletters are excellent, aren’t they?  In the email accompanying Gail’s latest issue I asked who would like a paper copy printed out and available at the next BSL meeting.  Now here’s the big question:  Would you be interested in a COLOR paper copy?  Would you be willing to pay for the extra copying cost?  Please reply via a comment or by sending me an email.

Thanks!

Does anyone know how to deal with grasshoppers? I have very small ones that are everywhere. They seem to especially like Shrimp Plants. How to get rid of them?

Remember, I asked about blueberries. Found out they need lots of acid and have been using Miracid twice a week. The leaves are coming out pretty quickly now. All is good.

I have a blueberry bonsai that is in a very slow state of budding out. Looks like its still alive, but not much leafing taking place. Any ideas about blueberry?

As part of the museum’s Japanese arts series, the founder of the Bonsai Society of Lakeland will be presenting a free bonsai lecture and display on Saturday, April 17 at 1:00 p.m. The bonsai display will be up all day Saturday.

Plus:  Kimono, Woodblock Prints, & Ceramics!

Japanese Textiles & Prints
Polk Museum of Art
April 10 – June 27, 2010
Dorothy Jenkins Gallery

RECEPTION: Friday, April 9, 6:00 – 8:30pm. Featuring a lecture at 6pm by Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art at the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. Free for Museum Members, $10 Non-Members.

CLICK HERE to RSVP to the museum.

Polk Museum of Art is home to a small, but beautiful, collection of Japanese textiles and prints, including several kimonos that were donated in 2006. This exhibition will include a few of those, as well as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s master woodblock print series 32 Aspects of Women.

There is another Japanese exhibit there at the same time, Functional Ceramics: European and Japanese – highlighting Japanese and European ceramics to address Japan’s greater focus on form versus Europe’s greater focus on surface decoration. The ceramics exhibit runs until July 18.

Looks like we are up and running on the blogosphere, thanks to Esther.  All I have to do now is do some exploring here and see what I can find.

Anyway –  hope to see a good number of you heading to Clif’s tomorrow.

Paul

The president of the Bonsai Society of Lakeland will be posting shortly.

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