NABF Newsletter
#2
Feature #1
From the NABF Southeast Region Editor
This has been a truly unique experience! I have been editor
of the Florida Bonsai magazine for over 13 years and was editor
of my home club newsletter for over 16 years and I have never
had the cooperation and information input from so many people
as I have had for this second NABF newsletter.
There are eleven states in the SE region which stretch from
the Gulf coast on the south to West Virginia on the north,
Louisiana on the west to the Atlantic seaboard. We have most
growing conditions found in nature - this morning West Virginia
had record cold temperatures while my roses are budding here
on the Gulf coast. The bayou country in Louisiana and Mississippi,
home of magnificent bald cypress, to North Carolina where
most of the temperate trees grow to the Florida Keys where
tropical Carribean basin plants flourish are all part of the
diversity contained within our region.
As diverse as the growing areas of this region are the people
who volunteered to be state members of the editorial team.
Joe Day from Mobile AL, my able assistant, volunteered immediately
when asked. Thanks, Joe. Bjorn Bjorholm from Tennessee, at
sixteen, is the youngest and one of the most active and attentive
members. John Quinn from South Carolina is in the medical
profession, Julian Adams from Virginia owns a bonsai nursery
and runs a private business, some team members are retired,
others I don't know their profession or other personal history
but one thing I do know. They are all professionals when it
comes to bonsai and their desire to keep other bonsai people
informed. I applaud them for that.
We hope you enjoy this second NABF newsletter and the galleries
we have put together for you. The continuation of the John
Naka saga - let's hope it never ends - and the static bonsai
displays in Florida and North Carolina plus the gallery of
bonsai from many of the states in the region are all outstanding.
Just to introduce our team members, biographical information
on most of them has also been included.
Please read and enjoy our newsletter and make it a New Years
resolution to support NABF and the upcoming WBFF convention
in 2005 in Washington DC.
Lee Vanderpool
NABF SE Region Editor
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