It's show time everyone! Yes, Midori's annual bonsai show is but weeks away! With that in mind, we have many things to organize, along with club members prepping their trees to make sure they are ready for the big show. These will be very busy weeks, planning for all the needed equipment and volunteers so that we all can enjoy ourselves and have fun when the day of the show arrives.

Here we are in August already; the hot days of summer will start to fade, and fall will begin to show its head with cooler days. Here’s what’s ahead for us as we get ready for our October show.

With July now upon us, our Midori yearly bonsai show is just a few months away. Friends, now is the time to sort through your collection of trees and determine what you plan to put in our show this year.

The month of June is an exciting time for us bonsai enthusiasts, as our trees are now putting on all their new green growth, allowing us to cut back and shape them into a more refined form.

We are privileged to once again have Eric Schrader as our guest speaker for this month's program meeting on Shohin—the art of very small bonsai.

April means the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, and with that, our annual bonsai show will once again take place at the Quinlan Community Center in Cupertino.

Over the years, no one has been more reliable than Bob Shimon of Mendocino Coast Bonsai as a vendor of collected bonsai trees and pots at all our shows. Bob will be sharing with us a Mendocino Pygmy Cypress first Thursday evening.

With spring just around the corner, please everyone, pay close attention to the many Bay Area bonsai activities that are listed in our monthly newsletter. Also, our annual Tree Improvement Program that we all look forward to each year. Everyone is invited to participate!

Welcome to a new year, Midori Bonsai Club! We're putting last year behind us and introducing exciting new programs that will hopefully move everyone forward with this bonsai craze we all love.

Here we are at the end of another year for the Midori Bonsai Club. December brings with it our Holiday Season, a time to be thankful and to reflect on the good things it has brought us.

Congratulations must go out to everyone who had a hand in making this year's Midori Bonsai Club show a complete success.

Yes, it's showtime, everyone! October has arrived, and we are finally forming the final ingredients necessary to put the finishing touches on our show this year.

Our club's bonsai show this year is just a few weeks away, and October is fast approaching. This means we need to prepare our trees for their final touch-ups.

Hot weather advice, a carving demonstration, and preparing for our upcoming show in October.

Since we're well into the month of July now, we all had an extra week or so to browse through the many potential items we would like to sell off for the club's Silent Auction this coming Thursday evening on July 11th.

It's the most exciting time to be busy at work with the trees we've developed and nurtured over the many years we have shared with the club.

Once again, the Midori Bonsai Club put on a very successful and entertaining Cherry Blossom Festival this past weekend. And just in time for this spring's new bonsai experiences, Christian Sierra will be sharing with the club everything you wanted to know about bonsai soils, watering, and fertilizers.

April is truly a wonderful month for bonsai, spring is in the air, our bonsai trees are now putting on their new growth and our annual Cherry Blossom Festival bonsai show is finally here!

March is a beautiful month to me, signs of our trees pushing their new growth, with swollen new buds, and emerging leaves bursting out. Yes, spring is slowly showing its face for us bonsai enthusiasts.

Our club has a problem to solve, but really it's a good problem. If you have noticed for the past few meetings our attendance has exploded, with new members and others who are interested in attending our meetings. It is a blessing to see this happening!