At last our trees are coming out of winter and pushing out leaves, always a tentative time to see if there are any casualties from the winter. TOTM
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Remembering Colin Richardson
Colin Richardson, one of our members, passed away on Sunday 19th April 2026, from a strokeOur thoughts are with Gary and his wife.Colin was a true gentleman and had only just started his journey in Bonsai.He will be greatly missed by all of us.
March meeting 2026
More repotting trying to beat trees budding out in our topsy turvy seasons now. TOTM
Penjing workshop with Tisbury Memory Group
It was a great pleasure for Warminster Bonsai Club to run a bonsai and penjing workshop for Tisbury Memory Group yesterday.
Lodder Bonsai 2026
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 …
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 …