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      Minutes of the April 13, 2014 meeting of the Michiana Bonsai Study

Present:    

     Larry Benjamin, Rose Benjamin, Jason Bittle, John DeMaegd, Kathy Lee, and Bill & Norma Osborne

Location:     Home of Larry & Rose Benjamin, County Road 10, Bristol

Program:

       We worked on our own trees. Jason began work on a Shimpaku juniper which he had purchased at last

year's Chicago show by doing some judicous pruning. Kathy started pruning back a large multi-trunk boxwood

 which she got at one of her Fort Wayne club meetings. Larry re-potted a trident maple which he purchased from

 a dealer in Ohio on his way home from Bill Valavanis' Colloquium last June. But, the tree that he had looking the

 most like a bonsai specimen was a Sargent's juniper that John has been working on for awhile. He did some

 pruning as well as creating some jins, which produced a fine looking tree.

As we worked, some of our discussion centered around the upcoming Michigan All-State Show in May (the

10th and 11th). All of us except Jason have attended in the past and it was agreed that it's a great show - one

 that we hope to attend again.