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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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
Just set up the Warminster club display, looking forward to a great show today with the other bonsai clubs and traders.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …