Workshops & Skills Classes
Juniper Grafting Workshop with Fred Miyahara - Sign Up October Meeting $70
Workshop dates: November 8, 2026 and February 14, 2027
Six slots for this workshop will go on sale at the October 11th Club Meeting. The first class will be held on November 8th at 9:00am at the War Memorial building in Balboa Park. During the first class, students will prepare their prostrata juniper for later grafting. They will practice grafts on the branches that are cutoff. The second class will be held at the February 14, 2027 Club meeting. This session will be held in room 101 at 9:00am. During the second class, students will graft Kishu scions onto their prostrata junipers. Students should bring tools to prune their trees and a grafting knife to both classes.
Bonsai Display Workshop (Fred Miyahara, Cathy and Mark Edgar) Signup completed at the June meeting
The San Diego Bonsai Club is focused on supporting club members to display their Bonsai in the Fall and Spring bonsai shows. Club shows are a great place to learn and practice displaying bonsai. In addition, preparing your bonsai for display inevitably improves your bonsai. To display a bonsai requires a long lead time to allow the bonsai to recover from various operations such as pruning, deadwood management, repotting, etc. This makes the bonsai appear more mature rather than “just trimmed”. The actual bonsai display has many nuances that take practice to learn.
Fred Miyahara, Cathy Edgar and Mark Edgar have conducted two informal display workshops and based on the solid interest in displaying bonsai, we decided to conduct a six-session display workshop at the club meeting over the course of a year. We would like to invite ten club members to bring a bonsai or two to club meetings to prepare it for showing in the April 2027 Spring show. The bonsai should be around a year or so from show ready and have some maturity in a bonsai shape (front and main branches defined, some maturity in foliage pads…). In the first class we can assess the bonsai and their likelihood of being show ready in a year. We will apply bonsai principles (design, pruning, wiring, soil, watering, pest management, fertilizing, etc.) as needed for each bonsai.
The workshop will start August 2026, with sessions in October 2026, December 2026, February 2027, March 2027 and April 2027. The workshop will be held in room 101 at 8:30 AM. Hopefully, the bonsai will be shown in the April 2027 Spring show. The workshop cost will be $20 total with registration starting at the June 2026 club meeting.
A wait list is available and if you would like to add your name to the list, please email Mark Edgar at [email protected] .
Workshop dates: November 8, 2026 and February 14, 2027
Six slots for this workshop will go on sale at the October 11th Club Meeting. The first class will be held on November 8th at 9:00am at the War Memorial building in Balboa Park. During the first class, students will prepare their prostrata juniper for later grafting. They will practice grafts on the branches that are cutoff. The second class will be held at the February 14, 2027 Club meeting. This session will be held in room 101 at 9:00am. During the second class, students will graft Kishu scions onto their prostrata junipers. Students should bring tools to prune their trees and a grafting knife to both classes.
Bonsai Display Workshop (Fred Miyahara, Cathy and Mark Edgar) Signup completed at the June meeting
The San Diego Bonsai Club is focused on supporting club members to display their Bonsai in the Fall and Spring bonsai shows. Club shows are a great place to learn and practice displaying bonsai. In addition, preparing your bonsai for display inevitably improves your bonsai. To display a bonsai requires a long lead time to allow the bonsai to recover from various operations such as pruning, deadwood management, repotting, etc. This makes the bonsai appear more mature rather than “just trimmed”. The actual bonsai display has many nuances that take practice to learn.
Fred Miyahara, Cathy Edgar and Mark Edgar have conducted two informal display workshops and based on the solid interest in displaying bonsai, we decided to conduct a six-session display workshop at the club meeting over the course of a year. We would like to invite ten club members to bring a bonsai or two to club meetings to prepare it for showing in the April 2027 Spring show. The bonsai should be around a year or so from show ready and have some maturity in a bonsai shape (front and main branches defined, some maturity in foliage pads…). In the first class we can assess the bonsai and their likelihood of being show ready in a year. We will apply bonsai principles (design, pruning, wiring, soil, watering, pest management, fertilizing, etc.) as needed for each bonsai.
The workshop will start August 2026, with sessions in October 2026, December 2026, February 2027, March 2027 and April 2027. The workshop will be held in room 101 at 8:30 AM. Hopefully, the bonsai will be shown in the April 2027 Spring show. The workshop cost will be $20 total with registration starting at the June 2026 club meeting.
A wait list is available and if you would like to add your name to the list, please email Mark Edgar at [email protected] .
Workshops are sold two months in advance at the SDBC meetings. Any open seats in the workshop after the club meeting will then be sold here on the club website. Your name is added to the list after payment is received.
Any other questions, comments or suggestions, please email Bob Hale at [email protected]
You must be a San Diego Bonsai Club member to enroll in any class.
Not yet a member? It is easy to join. Just fill out the membership form and pay your annual dues.
Any other questions, comments or suggestions, please email Bob Hale at [email protected]
You must be a San Diego Bonsai Club member to enroll in any class.
Not yet a member? It is easy to join. Just fill out the membership form and pay your annual dues.