Sansui-Kai Bonsai Club

Home
United States
Encino, CA
Sansui-Kai Bonsai Club

Directions Website Contact the organization

Sansui-Kai Bonsai Club | Southern California

Founded in 1974, Sansui-Kai Bonsai Club is a Southern California non-profit organization made up of Bonsai enthusiasts and professionals dedicated to the learning, use and teaching of the horticultural techniques and artistic principles needed to grow, design and care for Bonsai.

09/17/2026

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all involved for a great 2026 Sansui Kai Bonsai Show!!!!!!!

Thanks especially to all of the volunteers and all that showed trees at our annual September Bonsai show at the Japanese Gardens! It could not have worked without you!

Thanks to Cindy Gold the President of Sansui Kai for her vision and tenacity in getting everything done!

The Show was a big hit!

Thanks to Philippe Baron, Daniel Deephouse and Mel Ikeda for their great Bonsai demonstrations!

Thanks to all the vendors and Bonsai friends that came to the Exhibit as well!

Thanks to the Japanese Garden for allowing us to put on our show!

I had a great time and hope everyone else did as well!!

I hope to see everyone at next years show!!!

Send a message to learn more

08/27/2026

08/17/2026

Thanks to Daniel Deephouse for explaining how to prepare trees for show. Our September 13th show at the Japanese Garden in Van Nuys, is right around the corner. We have about 28 to 30 submittals and have planned the placements for the show. Please let others know about our show and the Japanese Garden! There will be more information coming by email as the show gets closer. There will be no regular Sansui Kai meeting in September.

Send a message to learn more

07/18/2026

Thanks to Josh Miller and Rick Nabor for their insites to Boxwoods as Bonsai. The handout that Josh put together is a helpful thing to keep on hand.
Our August 12th meeting will be a" prepare your tree for exhibit" discussion with our own Daniel Deephouse. Daniel has done these types of meetings for other clubs. If you have questions, bring the tree(s) that you would like to show to the meeting. Lets all get ready for our September 13th show at the Japanese Garden!

Send a message to learn more

06/18/2026

Thanks again to Michael Roberts for his mentorship in building our elm forests! we will be planting them on slabs in a speacial December meeting! Our July 8th meeting will be a boxwood demo by member and past President, Josh Miller and member Rick Nabor. This will be an intertaining night! The demo tree will be in the raffle!
Hope to see everyone there!

Reminder: We meet at the Japanese Garden every 2nd Wednesday at 7pm
6100 Woodley Ave. Van Nuys CA

Send a message to learn more

05/21/2026

Thanks to Philippe Baron for an awesome demonstration about pad developement. Our June artist will be Michael Roberts continuing work on our Chinese Elm Forests.
Hope to see everyone there!!

Send a message to learn more

04/29/2026

Thanks to Daniel Deephouse for working with our members in refiningtheir trees at the April Meeting. Thanks to Rick Nabor and Daniel for moving trees and members to the building in order to avoid the scafolds. Our May meeting will be a demo by Philippe Baron.
Philippe Baron is a Los Angeles - based bonsai artist with over 20 years of dedicated practice and study. He has trained extensively with Mauro Stemberger for the past nine years, contributing to the care and development of trees in private collections across the region and traveling to Italy to work on Stemberger’s collection.
He currently helps maintain the exquisite bonsai collection of Hank Fawcett and works with Daniel Deephouse, Assistant Curator of Bonsai at the Huntington Library and Gardens. Philippe’s approach to bonsai is deeply aesthetic, devoted to cultivating beauty at every stage of a tree’s evolution, and guided by a continual pursuit of study and refinement.

Send a message to learn more

Address

6100 Woodley Avenue
Encino, CA
91406

Website

http://www.sansui-kai.org/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Sansui-Kai Bonsai Club posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.