Yearly Archives: 2012

Our Winter Show summary of the events of the day

What a busy show, we had over 400 visitors to our show and it was a fun packed day with much to see and discuss. Following an early start finishing off all the preparations for the show with the rest of the other visiting societies and traders, the show was officially opened by the Mayor…. Read more »

Our Winter Show results

Swindon & District Bonsai Society Winter image show 2012 results Best Shohin display* was by Mark & Ritta Cooper Best Mame display* was by Bob Bailey Best Conifer* was the Chinese Juniper that was owned by Martin Martin Shepperd Best Deciduous* tree was the Trident Maple by Mark Cooper Best Chuhin* was the Elm of Will… Read more »

Our Winter Show set up for 2012

This is the view on the night before our 10th Anniversary Swindon and District Bonsai Society Winter Image Show for 2012 when we started the set up in anticipation of the big day ahead. It was a busy evening of building, carrying, moving, lifting, unrolling and shuffling by all who helped out and it is… Read more »

Exhibiting at shows and show preparation

It is now only 5 days before our Winter Image Show this Sunday and Paul B gave an update on the final preparations and we discussed the last remaining arrangements and set up times. This was then followed by a talk firstly from Terry Adams on how to prepare your bonsai trees for a show… Read more »

Tree of the month

  This month there were six entries for tree of the month including Korean Hornbeams, Deshojo maple, Chinese Elm, Siberian Elm and a Forsythia.  The winning tree was a mame Korean Hornbeam, followed in second place by a Chinese Elm and in third place a Forsythia.

Lodders Bonsai, Holland trip

This was our sixth visit to HOKA-EN Bonsai studio also known as Lodders in Holland and once again we were stunned at the superb quality and choice of Bonsai trees for sale. It takes considerable time just to assess the range of Bonsai trees on offer and to pick

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Lee Verhorevoort Bonsai

Lee Verhorevoort Bonsai will be a trader at our 2012 Winter Image Show on Sunday 19th February and Lee will be selling a wide range of Bonsai trees and some really unusual and unique tree species.