Study Groups

Study Groups meet regularly in various locations around Puget Sound and Lake Washington. We have created 12 regional study groups. These regions are:

Far North (North of Snohomish County) 
Snohomish
Lynnwood/Edmonds/Bothell
Shoreline
Green Lake
Ship Canal and Lake Union
Georgetown
Sammamish/Issaquah
Bellevue/Redmond
Renton/Kent
Far South
Kitsap

Open study groups provide members an opportunity to work on their trees together to share bonsai knowledge and ideas. If you are a PSBA member and have not been contacted about being in a study group, please contact us.

Advanced bonsai practitioners may be interested in the invitation-only Connie Raphael group, or a professionally-led group conducted by such noted bonsai artists as Dave DeGroot, Boon Manatikivipart, or Ryan Neil. There is typically a cost involved in these groups.

Chores for November:

• Wire your Coastal, Black and Red pines.

• Thin, wire & graft your Mountain Pines

• Thin, wire & graft  your Junipers

• Thin & wire your maples, elms and beech (Deciduous) mid-September

• Thin & wire your deciduous trees. (flowering/fruiting varieties) mid-September

• Prune (December) your Larches

• Prune your Ginkgos

• Wire your False Cypress

• Ignore your Azaleas

• Prune and Wire your Cedar & Spruce

• Manually defoliate deciduous trees as needed.

• Pluck needles on dense healthy pines (this can wait till spring on young and developing trees)

• Continue weed and pest and disease control.

• Apply dormant oil and lime sulfur.

• Continue planning spring repotting. (choose pots and order soil)

• Can re-pot early blooming species now (Ume, Quince, Cherry, Crabapple, etc.)