Another busy evening with catching up on the Heathrow Bonsai show many thanks to Sally, Derek and Amelia for producing a club display for Heathrow show. The display was different from the norm as a display featuring mostly indoor bonsai mixed in with some outdoor trees, it did produce quite a bit of interest particularly …
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Heathrow Bonsai Show 2022
Just set up the Warminster club display, looking forward to a great show today with the other bonsai clubs and traders.
Corsley Fayre
Saturday 3rd saw Clive H and myself setting up our club display in the marquee at the Corsley Fayre. We were made welcome at the fayre and given a good position in the marquee, we only took our smaller display as we did not know what room we would be allocated but we were able …
August meeting
With the temperature finally cooling down it was a busy meeting with lots of trees having some catch up work carried out on them. One tree a Larch had very flat pads with little character, the owner had previously wired it out extensively but when the very hot weather came along did not carry out …
Thursday meeting 18th August
Just a reminder to all, of our club meeting this Thursday, I have taken a pic of the club raffle tree a Ligustrum which is developing into a cracking shohin. I have done minimal pruning just to keep it in shape as it will be left to the lucky winner to put their style on …
Staverton Group Bonsai boot sale
Sunday 31st July was the second year for the Staverton Group to organise this Bonsai boot sale and thanks to Tony suggesting that it would be a good opportunity to have a pitch to advertise our club. We had not planned to have a pitch as individually we did not have enough trees to sale …
RHS Wisley Bonsai
We took a trip to the RHS Wisley today for the Ferns and Carnivorous show and while we were in the gardens we got to walk past the Herons Bonsai display. For those who have not seen it recently, here are a few images of the bonsai on display and the current display includes a …
July meeting
A busy evening with quite a fews trees being worked on. Few pics of a Larch approx 40cm high from top of pot and 30cm wide. When obtained it had a natural shari running down the trunk which has been enlarged to give more character, the long extensions now trimmed back to preserve outline. It …
Staverton Group Bonsai Boot Sale 31st of July 2022
Warminster Bonsai will be displaying at the Staverton Group Bonsai Boot Sale next weekend so come along and have a chat. There will be lots to see and loads to buy and it should be a great day out.
Market Lavington Vintage Show 2022
These are the photos of our club display at the Market Lavington show, we tried to show a wide selection of trees that are used for Bonsai including several that would be found as shrubs in the garden the aim being to show people that you don’t have to have exotic material to get good …