BSGC Monthly Meeting featuring bonsai artist Jason Parrish

The November meeting and workshop will feature bonsai artist Jason Parrish, owner of Kawa No Oka Bonsai in Spencer, Indiana will be visiting us to talk about pines.  The meeting will feature a demo of a nice ponderosa pine (pinus ponderosa) which will be raffled of at the end of the meeting.  The Member's Workshop on Saturday, 11/22 will feature a day with Jason learning about and styling Scotch pine (pinus sylvestris).  As always, the meeting is free and open to the public, and members can sign up for the workshop at Ponderosa Pine workshop with artist Jason Parrish

About Jason

I was introduced to bonsai by accident back in 1997, after coming across a bonsai kit in a mall. The idea and the culture interested me. While the kit sadly never amounted to anything, it did inspire me to start learning more about bonsai. This I did by scouring all the local libraries for any books I could find on the subject. Unfortunately the internet was not a source yet back then! I learned everything I could on my own and began increasing my plant knowledge and learning to care for the trees. Several years later I came across someone while working that had bonsai in their yard. They helped me to find and join the Indianapolis Bonsai Club. There I was able to meet people involved in the art/hobby. This gave me the chance to greatly increase my knowledge and skills. In the years since I have been keeping and learning everything about bonsai that I can. In 2021 I decided that it was time to move my hobby forward. I left my job of 20 years to pursue my passion of propagating, raising, styling and selling bonsai for a living. It has been an amazing adventure that continues to grow every day. My goal for the future is to help those that have an interest to get started into the hobby. I know how hard it was when I started. It is my desire to create high quality pre-bonsai and bonsai that are affordable to anyone with the interest.