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Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month except for December and January. All meetings
begin at 7:00 PM at the Des Moines Botanical Center (909 Robert Ray Drive) unless
notified otherwise, with the exception that the November meeting always begins at 6:30 PM.
Members are encouraged to bring trees for show and tell, to work on, or to get help with after
the scheduled program. (Remember you may need to bring some tools for this.) Members
may work on their adopted Botanical Center bonsai trees during meetings.

January: No meeting in January.

February 21: IBA Meeting. Program: All about Pots, Ivan Hanthorn. Trying on Pots with paper
cutouts, David Richmond. Tree of the Month, Trident Maple, Craig Ball.

March 20: IBA Meeting.

April 17: IBA Meeting.

May 15: IBA Meeting.

June 19: IBA Meeting.

July 1: Entry deadline, IOWA STATE FAIR BONSAI SHOW. Agriculture Bldg., Iowa State Fairgrounds,
Des Moines, Iowa.

July 17: IBA Meeting.

August 12: IOWA STATE FAIR BONSAI SHOW.

August 21: IBA Meeting.

September 18: IBA Meeting.

September 29-30: FALL BONSAI SHOW. Reiman Gardens, Ames, Iowa. IBA Board Meeting will be held
at 2:30 pm Sunday at Reiman. All members not participating in bonsai show activities are welcome to
attend the Board Meeting.

October 16: IBA Meeting.

November 15: IBA Pot Luck Dinner and Annual Meeting. Annual awards; election of the new Board
of Directors for 2013; Auction of "Designed by Committee" tree: Prizes for people who brought trees to
meetings.

December: No meeting held in December

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