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Spring bonsai delights

  • Firethorn (Pyracantha)
  • Barberry (Berberis)
  • Mountain maple (Acer palmatum)
  • Mountain maple (Acer palmatum)
  • Mountain maple (Acer palmatum)
  • Crab Apple (Malus sieboldii)
  • Trident maple (Acer buergerianum)
  • Japanese red maple (Acer palmatum ‘Desjojo‘)
  • One of the Raffle prizes for 2021 – Mountain maple (Acer palmatum)

Thank you Sally and Derek for posting these lovely spring images of your trees coming into leaf and flower this year. It is a stunning array of colour and blooms.

Traders at our show

Seems like so long ago now. These are the traders who attended our winter show earlier in the year. A big thank you to all of them for making the day.

  • Simon Hadden: Suteki!
  • European Bonsai Pottery Collective
  • Tony Remington: bonsai ceramics
  • David Sampson
  • Dragonfly bonsai pots
  • Windybank Bonsai
  • John Trott: Mendip Bonsai
  • Davey Jones: Wallsall Ceramics Studio
  • Chris Thomas: Dragon Bonsai
  • Dan Butler
  • Mark Kennerley: Wire Bonsai
  • Corin Tomlinson: Greenwood bonsai
  • Dan Barton bonsai pots
  • Lee Verhorevoort bonsai

Trees of interest

We didn’t have a tree of the month at our last meeting. It was our Annual General Meeting. Members still brought in trees that looked at their seasonal best though.

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Award winning trees

Best native tree: Steve McKee, Hawthorn
Best evergreen tree: Terry Adams, White Pine
Best mame display: Mark & Ritta Cooper
Best mame tree: Ritta Cooper, Juniper
Best shohin display: Mark & Ritta Cooper
Best shohin tree: Sally May, Silverberry
Best overall display: Mark Cooper
John Trott sponsored best accent: Smithy, fungus
Best deciduous: Graham Simpson, Chinese Elm
Davey Jones sponsored best tree/pot combination: Mark Kerry, Acer Acer palmatum ‘Kiyohime’ in a Dan Barton pot
Best club display: Bristol Bonsai Society

Winter show raffle prize

A Swindon club member has donated this unusual pot to our raffle, turn up to our show tomorrow and win it!

Winter show raffle prize

@dragonflybonsaipots

Graham from Dragonfly bonsai pots has donated this rustic pot to be included in the raffle at our show next weekend. Graham will be attending show taking commission orders and selling stock, so catch him there.