1st place, RA Spindle
2nd place, SM English Elm
3rd place, DA Zelkova
May tree of the month
April tree of the month
1st place, DA Fuji Cherry
2nd place, DM Cotoneaster
3rd place, SM Trident Maple
Award Winning Trees
Best Deciduous Tree: Warren Radford, Acer
Award Winners
Newbury & District Bonsai Society
The club meets on the first Wednesday of each month (except January) at 7.30pm at Speen Village Hall, Newbury. Most of the meetings include hands-on workshops where we bring trees to work on and get advice from other members of the club. They hold frequent discussions, presentations and demonstrations on various bonsai topics: horticultural skills, practical skills, bonsai aesthetics and general botanical subjects. Gaining their external expertise via weekend workshops with an expert and they arrange digs at local sites where some prime bonsai material has been obtained over the years. They are a friendly group of enthusiasts and you’ll be very welcome to come along to see what they are all about. Please get in touch via newbury.bonsai@btinternet.com or ring Dave on 0118 983 3188.
Here’s a flavour of the displays we put on at various shows during the year. Newbury Bonsai Society will be displaying at our Winter Image Show this Sunday.
Raffle prize, Stone Monkey pot
Size is 12 x 12 x 21.5 cm internal
Andrew Prett-Pearson has kindly donated this fantastic and impressive pot for the raffle at our upcoming Winter Show. You will have to turn up on the day and buy a ticket and also be around at lunch time (if you are lucky enough to win) and receive this wonderful prize. Thanks Andy.
If you like what you see and want to see more visit www.stonemonkeyceramics.co.uk
January tree of the month
1st place, KB Larch
2nd place, AW Zelkova
3rd place, SM English Elm
List of awards
At our next Winter Show we will be using a panel of judges, similar to the system used at several recent bonsai events. It will be made up of professional and experienced amateurs, each judge will select three trees in each category. There is no need to select 1st, 2nd & 3rd, so the order is irrelevant. The results will then be aggregated and details displayed for all to see including the voting and any comments made. In the event of a tie between two or more, all the judging panel will be asked to vote again to select the winner. The winning trees/displays will be identified by name cards and the main Awards will be presented later in the show.
- Best Club display
- Best Shohin Tree, approx 20 cm from pot
- Best Chuhin Tree, approx 45 cm from pot
- Best Deciduous Tree
- Best Conifer tree
- Best Overall Display in show (Area within a backdrop, includes Tree/Pot/stand/scroll, accent depending on what used)
- Best Tree/Pot combo awarded by Walsall Studio Ceramic
- Best Accent awarded by Mendip Bonsai
- ‘Arihato Award’ best small tree, awarded and judged by Kit Bowns
November tree of the month
1st place, PB Hawthorn
2nd place, SM Korean Hornbeam
3rd place, GS Cotoneaster
Bonsai San Exhibition
This year the European Bonsai San Show was, as usual, very impressive; trees from Japan as well from Italy, Spain and more. The guests included, Ryan Neil, Andres Alvarez Iglesias and David Benavente. The demonstrations were really interesting which covered what trees needs for the first styling only.