Do you want to learn about bonsai and how to grow and nurture them? Volcano Garden Arts will be hosting a day of demonstrations and a sale with bonsai master Bill Newton on Father’s Day Weekend.
Do you want to learn about bonsai and how to grow and nurture them? Volcano Garden Arts will be hosting a day of demonstrations and a sale with bonsai master Bill Newton on Father’s Day Weekend.
The free event is 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 17 and 18, at Volcano Garden Arts, 19-3834 Old Volcano Road in Volcano.
Newton is a bonsai sensei, according to a press release. He began his bonsai career at 12 years old, with the Santa Monica Bonsai Nursery.
In the early ’70s, he moved to Oahu where he worked in Pupukea greenhouses for Kazu Matsumura and then at T. Kubota Wholesale Nursery on Oahu. During this time he earned two bachelor degrees in horticulture from University of Hawaii at Manoa.
For 25 years he managed large retail nurseries. He was a member of the Phoenix Bonsai Society for 15 years and was co-founder and first President of the West Valley Bonsai Club. In 2012, Newton returned to Hawaii, working for Yoshi Ota at his nursery in Panaewa.
Volcano Garden Arts is situated on a World Heritage site a mile from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Its grounds include gardens, art studios, greenhouses for both plant cultivation and art-making, and access to nature trails into surrounding, upland rain forest.
