2011 Wee Tree Schedule at Garland Nursery

SCHEDULE OF BONSAI ARTISTS and WORKSHOPS AT GARLAND NURSERY sponsored by Wee Tree Farm

A Bonsai professional is there from 10am to 5pm on the days listed.  We want to make it convenient for you to learn how to create and maintain healthy bonsai.  Bring your bonsai in for help or stop by with questions.

Peter Adams will be conducting an all day workshop at Wee Tree Farm in Philomath on March 24th, 2012. More information to come but if you are interested in a spot please call 541-929-9520 to hold one.

 

Feb. 4 – Don Pope, owner of Cascade Bonsai
Feb 5 – Bud Weiser, Bud likes helping individuals one on one.  Even if you are a beginner come in for his help.
Feb. 11 – Dick Gierok, Come watch Dick demonstrate how to do a thread graft at 1:00 today.
Feb 12 – Diane Lund
Feb. 18 – Dick Gierok
Feb 19 – Rose Bailey
Feb. 25 – Dick Gierok
Feb 26 – Steve Wilcox, Beginner Bonsai Class*

March 3 – Don Pope, owner of Cascade Bonsai
March 4 – Rose Bailey
March 10 – Dick Gierok
March 11 – Diane Lund
March 17 – Dick Gierok
March 18 – Rose Bailey
March 24 – Dick Gierok, Beginner Bonsai Class**
March 24 – Peter Adams full day workshop in Philomath***
March 25 – Bud Weiser, Bud likes helping individuals one on one.  Even if you are a beginner come in for his help.
March 31 –

April 7 – Dick Gierok
April 8 – Don Pope, owner of Cascade Bonsai
April 14 – Dick Gierok
April 15 – Rose Bailey
April 21 – Dick Gierok
April 22 –
April 28 –
April 29 – Bud Weiser, Bud likes helping individuals one on one.  Even if you are a beginner come in for his help.

*Beginner Bonsai Class on February 26th with Steve Wilcox.  This class starts at 1 and should end about 4.  The cost is $45.00 and includes everything you need to complete one bonsai.  Come learn how to style, repot, wire and care for your own juniper bonsai.  Call 541-929-9520 to sign up.  The class is limited to 6 people.

 **Beginner Bonsai Class on March 24th with Dick Gierok.  Starts at 11am, ends approx. 3pm, bring a lunch.  Please go in on March 10th or March 17th to choose a plant ahead of the class.  Dick wants you to become familiar with your plant and have some styling ideas before the class starts.  Cost of the class is $20.00 plus the price of the plant and pot that you choose.  Call 541-929-9520 to sign up.  The class is limited to 6 people.

***Full day workshop with Peter Adams on March 24th.  This is a bring your own workshop, learn from one of the best.  It starts at 10am and lasts till 4:30.  Bring a lunch and all your own supplies.  Bring several trees, Peter will get to as many as he can in that time frame.  The cost is $90.00 and the class is limited.  Call to sign up 541-929-9520

 

Peter Adams N.D.D., Cert. R.A.S.
BIOGRAPHY

Peter Adams began his fifty year career with bonsai as a 12 year old student at art school in England.  After seven years at provincial college, he gained entrance to the Royal Academy Schools in London - one of twenty two admitted from several hundred applicants.

After gaining his degree from the Royal Academy, Peter worked as a portrait artist,  an advertising  art director,  animation film maker,  in TV as film director, and illustrated for the UK Ministry of Defence.

His bonsai nursery and school were well known for thirty years and were attended by many of the prominent figures in European bonsai.  Peter has exhibited regularly with the Royal Horticultural Society in London at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show and advised the RHS on judging selection for the show.  He  also taught the staff of the RHS Gardens at Wisley as a foundation for their present bonsai interest.

Peter has continued painting and his work is in many private collections.  His ability as an art critic has led him to provide various art related services for bonsai collectors everywhere.  One form this takes is instruction in bonsai design as a graphic program tailored to the needs of the individual and their trees.  Part of this package is a very detailed future state tree drawing.  These drawings are eagerly  sought after for framing.  He is also much in demand as advisor to private collectors of bonsai.

Peter and his wife Kate now live in Washington state.  They spend time traveling and teaching bonsai throughout the world.  As well as being the most prolific western author of books on bonsai, he now writes for journals such as Bonsai Focus on a regular basis and also illustrated Kate’s book  ‘Bonsai Easy Steps with 21 Species‘.

His work has been a major force in the progress of western bonsai.  This was acknowledged most recently by the Association of British Bonsai Artists with their award for “raising the standard of British bonsai to that of an art form“.

Dr. C.J. "Bud" Weiser is a bonsai enthusiast and a retired professor of horticulture.  His research and teaching specialties at the U of MN and OSU were plant propagation and winter hardiness.  His bonsai and stone sculpting hobbies evolved into a new mini-career after he retired from OSU a dozen years ago as dean of the College of Agriculture.

Bud especially enjoys designing and training bonsai, collecting trees that have been shaped by severe climatic conditions and in experimenting with a wide range of plant materials.  He normally has about 500 to 600 trees of more than 30 different plant genera in various stages of development.  His bonsai training methods and styling are often non-traditional.  Garland
Nursery, Wee Tree Farm and five other Oregon nurseries sell his consigned trees, and four art galleries offer his stone sculptures and limited edition bronzes.
Bud says
“I try to get those who are waiting to consult with me involved in helping resolve another person’s problem or project.  In the process I’m often able to convince them that their opinions about bonsai design are as valid as anyone else; that they do know what they like or not when they look at options for pruning/wiring; that growing bonsai is not complicated or mysterious; that pruning doesn’t hurt plants, that frequent repotting, wiring screens in pot holes, wiring roots into pots, etc are usually unnecessary.”

Bud will demonstrate techniques, help you trim and train your bonsai trees and answer your questions.  He is likely to request your opinion and help while assisting others.

In February 2000 while at the Portland Home and Garden Show I came across a vendor who had a grove of Japanese Larch Trees on display. I was mesmerized by that grove and something inside me just clicked so my Bonsai Journey began. I read many books, magazines and articles from the internet. Started haunting nurseries of all kinds and discovered that I was having a hard time getting the information from the books to my trees. In my search for information I came across WeeTree Farm and saw that they offered Bonsai Classes. I signed up for the beginner series where I met my Mentor Anne Spencer. Anne encouraged me to join the Bonsai Society of Portland and to continue taking classes and as many workshops as possible.   Currently I am taking a series of workshops with Dave DeGroot the curator of the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection.  Bonsai has truly changed my life and I hope to share what I have learned and experienced with other people in and coming into the hobby.  (Steve is owner of Apex Bonsai Supply and can be reached at 503-625-2638)

Dick is a master gardener, past president of the Willamette Valley Bonsai Society and has been a judge for Bonsai at the Oregon State Fair since 2005. He planted his first tree in 1958. It died. He planted another which lived and he was hooked. Dick did Bonsai on and off for 10 years until 1993. Since then, Bonsai has been a constant and pleasant reward. He has been at Wee Tree Farms most weekends for the last four years giving advice and presenting Bonsai demos.

Diane Lund first became involved with Bonsai when she saw one at a nursery in Anchorage Alaska.  Buying every book she could get her hands on she started experimenting with bonsai while living in Alaska and later in Minnesota.  After moving to Oregon in 1994 she quickly filled her back yard with bonsai and started selling them in front of her house and at Garland nursery where she worked.  It was hard to obtain bonsai pots so after much research she started importing pots from Japan.  This was the start of Wee Tree Farm.  Wee Tree’s retail store has been at Garland Nursery since 1986.  We are a pottery business importing from Japan, China, and Korea, and we also grow Bonsai trees…. and Diane still has a strong love for Bonsai!