We now look on the Swindon show as the opener for the new bonsai year a chance to meet friends and dealers we have not seen over the winter.
TOTM January 2013
There were 4 entries this month:
Chairman,s chat January meeting
Firstly a happy new to you all and many thanks to those members who braved the weather warning and attended the AGM.
Sandra,s corner January meeting
A belated “Happy new year”to you all.
TOTM December
Decembers Tree of the Month competition was to decorate a Bonsai in ‘The
Christmas Style’ in which the Hank Yarde Trophy is awarded.
This years contestants for the Hank Yarde Trophy were as follows:
Chairman,s chat December meeting
The December meeting has now become a social with the TOTM being your best decorated? tree, you will see that over the past few years members are taking this serious now with some imaginative Christmas scenes.
Sandra,s corner November meeting
Our last meeting was different as it was rock carving with thermal blocks and for once it was a good that due to the weather they were all wet and when you carved them there was very little dust.
TOTM November
We had 5 entries this month, Sally and her Ivy, Clive Harber with his Leptosperum, Chris Jefferies and his Chinese Juniper, Tony Dixon and his Silver Birch Group, and Bob with his Pine. Joint 1st was Clive Harber & Chris Jefferies and Joint 2nd was Sally & Bob.
Chairman,s chat November meeting
Last months meeting was a demonstration by Wilf and Tony on the carving of thermal blocks, some of you have done this before but for those who have not seen this before it adds another dimension to Bonsai.
Heathrow Bonsai show
On Sunday 4th November Clive H myself and Sandra travelled up to Heathrow to put on a club display in the Heathrow Bonsai show, the weather was atrocious going up raining all the way, marquees had been put up but the rain was being driven in through any gap onto the tables so it was decided not to use our backdrops and cloths.