This is our annual trip to Lodder Bonsai in the Netherlands we plan this trip to coincide with his new shipments of bonsai and his open weekend. He invites various traders associated with bonsai such as potters, scroll makers, bronze figurines to go with your trees, carving tool attachment, wooden stands for Shohin as well …
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February 2026 meeting
Busy meeting with repotting and wiring but the main interest was members could collect their pots made from the Dan Butler pottery workshop we had last year. We normally collect our fired pots at the Swindon Winter Image show but due to a delay on the installation of Dans new kiln about only half of …
January meeting 2026
The start of our new year and good to see many members returning and renewing membership. Few trees being worked on and some brought in for thoughts on the work required for when the weather improves. We also used this months meeting to have a dummy run for our club display at the Swindon Winter …
December meeting 2025
Our last meeting of the year and it is also our AGM, having learnt over the past few years we now hold a Penjing evening after the AGM we have less thrown at us and considerable less boos as the members are eager to get into the Penjing. This has been so popular with our …
November meeting 2025
A chilly evening to say the least but still members brought along trees for their final preparation for winter closedown. TOTM
Lee Verhorevoort workshop
This was our Saturday workshop with Lee Verhorevoort which is always a brilliant learning day, Lee trained in Japan and brought his knowledge back but adapted this to our climate and is just a library of information. We use his advise on developing raw material to refining trees this is where you take your trees …
October meeting 2025
Apologies for late posting I wanted to post our pottery workshop with Dan and Carly Butler which took place two days after the club and was so popular I forgot our club meeting. TOTM
Dan Butler pottery workshop
Back by very popular demand after we had a Saturday pottery workshop last year Dan and Carly returned to hold another workshop. There where eleven of us would have been twelve but due to illness one had to drop out, Dan started off with a refresher on the basics of pot making much needed as …
Heathrow Show 2025
Our club display at the show many thanks to Sally, Derek and Amelia for putting this display on. Some photos of the show with thanks to Amelia for these.
September meeting 2025
Talk amongst the members of trees showing early autumn colour probably brought on by the stress of the high temperatures this summer. Mixture of work at this months meeting tidying up structures, wiring and restyling while trees still supple and thoughts of repotting late autumn early winter. TOTM