Weather permitting this is one of the main months to start repotting trees before they start pushing although talking to members some trees have already produced buds. No doubt climate change with no real defined end and start of seasons is having an affect on nature. There was some serious repotting being done on many …
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January 19th meeting 2023
This was the first meeting of our new year it was a workshop but also the selection from trees brought in by members for the upcoming Swindon Bonsai Winter image show being held on Sunday 19th February at the Grange Leisure Centre SN3 4JY. The selection which is never easy is over seen by our …
December 15th AGM and decorated tree competition.
Decembers meeting is the clubs AGM and end of year get together with the decorated tree competition. The AGM is usually a short affair as we have open discussions on club matters through out the year and this one was no different. I would just like to thank all the club members who returned to …
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November 2022 meeting
At this months meeting we had a talk and demonstration by Amelia on repotting in late autumn. Amelia has been repotting her trees at this time of year for some time and her results have proven that this works. Contra to the books you will read which say to repot in the spring Amelia explained …
Lakeside Garden Centre, Crockerton October 2022
This is the first time we have been able to display at Lakeside and weather was kind with a steady flow of people coming throughout the day. Difficult time for choosing trees that still look good after the stress of the heat wave we experienced this year but it created interest. This is the display …
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Lakeside Garden Centre, Crockerton.
Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of October we will be putting on a display at Lakeside Garden Centre, Crockerton BA12 8AP, aim to promote our club and have a demonstration table to explain to the public what bonsai are and what is involved to produce a bonsai. Any club member welcome to help on the …
September meeting
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 …
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 …