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.
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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
August meeting 2025
With the heat wave now subsidising the conversation was about the battle to keep trees from drying out. Many of us were watering two to three times a day but despite this it was not always sufficient to stop trees showing signs of stress, general thoughts were that despite the watering to stop composts drying …
July 2025 meeting
Considering the excessively hot spell we were going through quite a number of trees brought in to work on which is always good to see. We also held the drawing of the club raffle tree, congratulations to Gary who won this Hawthorn with lots of potential. TOTM
Club display at Blackmore Vale Bonsai show 2025
On Sunday 22nd June we attend Blackmore Vale Bonsai show along with Somerset and Staverton clubs and a guest Shohin display put on by Ming. Although the show is not one of the larger ones on the calendar the shear quality of the trees on display made up for this with some really large and …
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Cacti and Succulent show Melksham 2025
The Wiltshire branch of the Cactus and Succulent Society held their annual show in the Melksham Assembly Hall Saturday 18th June and we have been fortunate to be invited to their shows to put on a display of bonsai. This is a show well worth a visit if you are interested in plants just to …
May meeting 2025
Busy session now that our trees are pushing well so only few photos taken. TOTM
Chris Thomas workshop
Saturday 10th May was our workshop with Chris Thomas which is always well attended and included two members who came along to just to observe. As always Chris covered a wide variety of trees brought in by us varying from raw material, material that presented a challenge as to where do you go with it …
March meeting 2025
Very busy meeting with lots of repotting trying to catch up with trees before it is too late and they start budding out, also as we have this year a Chris Thomas workshop a Lee Verhorevoort workshop and a Dan Butler pottery workshop planned this took up time to take names so only a few …
Lodder Bonsai open weekend 2025
This is our annual trip to Lodders Bonsai open weekend which coincides with their new imports for this year. The shear number and variety of bonsai on offer is mind boggling and he still had two containers to come, Gerrit also invites other people associated with bonsai to put up a stand in their loading …