Warminster Bonsai Club

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 stand and talk to the public even if its just for a short period, come along for a chat.

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 as indoor bonsai are not normally displayed at bonsai shows.

As well as catching up there were quite a few trees being worked on with members trying to catch up with work on trees that had been held up by the heatwave we experienced.

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 to have a good selection of trees.

The fayre was a much smaller version of the original Corsley Show pre covid but never the less we found it well attended and we were kept busy talking to the public through out the afternoon.

We would thank the organisers for allowing us to put on our display, and if the number of people that came through is anything to judge by it bodes well if the organisers decides the bring this back as an annual event.

Apologies for only pics of display my battery went flat in my phone ( feel like a teenager now ).

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 any restyling as it would have stressed the tree too much.

On bringing it in it was decided to work on the lower pads splitting them up to start putting character into the tree.

The top of the tree was pruned lightly as it will be bent to the right bringing it back over the tree, the tree requires further pruning on all pads as they are too long and require being brought back into the tree for a more compact image.

This work would have been carried out early than this meeting but because it was held up by the heat and that there is now a shorter growing time left now it was decided not to carry out the drastic pruning required.

It will wait until next spring when it is growing strong and then be cut back to the buds that are in the direction it needs to grow and distance from the trunk along with reshaping the apex.

Some pics of the work carried out at the meeting.

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 it.

I will be bringing it in on Thursday so do take a closer look at the trunk movement.

We had a couple of pots donated to the club when we did the Cacti and Succulent show at Melksham I will bring them in as well,cheap price as monies go to the club.

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 to warrant one, however when it was decided that between us it made sense and surprisingly or not we managed to have brought along a good selection of trees, wooden stands both formal and decorative sections for sale, so on Sunday we set up our emporium.

For those of you who have not attended either years do not be put off by the Boot Sale bit it is much more than this, it attracts dealer stands, potters as well as individuals selling and offers trees from starter material to high quality both styled and Yamadori.

We had quite a bit of interested on our stand from people who live local to the club many asking for advice so you never know we might attract some new members, if we dont it is always good to talk Bonsai.

Many thanks to Tony and his group for organising this event and keep your eyes out for next years date, if you have not attended I recommend it there is nothing in this area to compare to it.

Just a few pics of the day does not cover all who had pitches to give you an idea of the event.

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 Horse Chestnut tree as a bonsai, a range of Maples, Pines, White Beech, Larch, Elm, Common Beech, Junipers, Cedars plus a Fig, Mulberry and Maidenhair tree.

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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.