Collette Harrison

For the July meeting we Collette Harrison from Bonsai Trees Southampton who gave a talk on Satsuki and other flowering species.

The talk covered a wide variety of flowering species both indoor and outdoor types on their care and maintenance, the feed back from some members was extremely good and all enjoyed Collettes evening.

Some pics below just setting up for the talk already her sales table drew customers.

Blackmore Vale show

Blackmore Vale Bonsai group held their annual show end of June to which local clubs were invited, the show was well attended and remained busy throughout the day.

We enjoyed ourselves and congratulations to Staverton Bonsai Group for winning best club display well earned. Congratulations to Ian Duff winner of best tree in show.

    Chris Thomas workshop Warminster

    We held another popular Saturday workshop with Chris Thomas

    eight club members attended the day and brought in a variety of material to discuss with Chris and to work on through the day, Chris had set up a central stand for each person to bring there tree up to for discussion and advice.

    Always revealing when you put a tree up and you stand back how obvious some faults are and what options you have for styling we all enjoyed the day some pics of the day below.