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 …
Category archives: General
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 …
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 Meet
The club will have a display stand at this event on Sunday 17th July any members visiting this event hopefully you will find us. For any non members of Warminster Bonsai club you are more than welcome to come and have a chat about Bonsai in general or if you have a problem tree we …
Flowering and thinning out
Few pics of some members trees the shohin Hawthorn is a double red variety which might explain why for its size it outperforms larger Hawthorns for number of flowers, Now is also the time to be looking at thinning deciduous trees the previous warm weeks have brought on long extension growths and will probably have …
Air layering and thread grafting
These are some pics of an Acer Palmatum that was acquired few years ago, its main attraction then was it had a good trunk and was cheap. It was planted in the ground and basically forgotten save for clipping back any long growth for about for about four years, it was lifted in 2018 and …
Swindon Winter Image Show 2018
Warminster club display Clive H picked black and white images instead of traditional scrolls, these were to reflect the settings for the trees, some liked the idea others not so keen but praise to Clive for trying something different. Unfortunately could not get shot with all trees in. Rest of show pics