“Bonsai Visions of the West“, presented by the Golden State Bonsai Federation and the American Bonsai Society will be held October 30 through November 2, 2014, in the DoubleTree Hotel, Sacramento, California.

Headliners are Kathy Shaner, the first non-Japanese citizen to be certified by the Nippon Bonsai Kyodo Kumaii, the growers branch of the Nippon Bonsai Association; Peter Tea, who has been actively involved in bonsai at an advanced level for the past 11 years, and David de Groot, curator of Weyerhaeuser’s Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection since its inception in 1989.

Featured artists are Jack Sustic, curator at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, and Ted Matson, who manages the bonsai collections for The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

There will be both judged and open bonsai exhibits as well as critiques, workshops and seminars as well as a host of vendors.

Registration information is available online.

(Photo courtesy of Golden State Bonsai Federation)