The Saturday workshop was excellent with Chris Thomas and the day flew by with bonsai trees of all species and sizes being worked upon. Here is a selection of the bonsai trees being developed.
Acer palmatum development
Tonight the session was focused on discussing those trees that club members have no idea how to style or were in need of advice on, as everyone has had one of those bonsai trees at some stage in their bonsai hobby. It was a good evening with lots of discussion on a wide variety of species with ideas coming from many club members. The evening started off with a chat from our Chairman Paul who then introduced the topic and the discussion commenced.
What a fantastic bonsai show, bringing together so many amazing people in one location to talk about bonsai, display their own bonsai trees and have the opportunity to buy bonsai supplies. With everything available from the bonsai traders from bonsai trees to tools, soils, fertilisers and so much more. It is such a friendly atmosphere with everyone catching up, and discussing their bonsai trees and techniques as well as their successes and problems following this summer’s extreme temperatures.
A huge thank you goes out to Mark and MingChen Moreland who provide their unwavering support, dedication and enthusiasm for the hobby of bonsai and are instrumental in not only starting the Heathrow Bonsai Show all those years ago but also the UKBA more recently in 2018. Thanks also to all those who made today’s show possible with their time, effort and organisation prior to the show and making sure everything was set up yesterday in anticipation of today as well as helping at the end of the show. A final thank you to all those exhibiting and trading at the show as well as the visitors who came to see what the hobby of bonsai is all about. Follow-up posts for our own Club display plus the other club displays and traders will follow shortly.
If you are interested in bonsai then this was the show to attend, as it is open to all those who are interested in the hobby of bonsai and provides a chance for anyone who belongs to a bonsai club or society an opportunity to display their own bonsai trees together. If you are interested in finding out more details about any of the clubs at the show today visit the UKBA website for more details of the clubs that were present plus all the bonsai clubs and societies in the UK plus there is a map of these on our website too.
This year was another fantastic year for the bonsai club displays with 36 clubs present displaying their club members’ bonsai trees there was something for everyone to enjoy. With so many individuals from each club collectively coming together to display their own designs and styles and tree species of bonsai it was fabulous to see such inspirational trees. It ranged from tropical bonsai through to mame, shohin, chuhin as well as some very impressive larger bonsai on the displays. Further posts to follow with details of the other bonsai clubs and traders present today.
There was a general buzz about the hall all day with everyone checking out the latest traders and everything they had to offer for sale. It was great to see so many visitors, as well as exhibitors, walking about proudly with their new purchases, I was one of those too as I found a stunning Oak bonsai tree for sale which I bought as it looks just like a Veteran Oak tree. It was great to see so much variety of a diverse range of items for sale from stunning hand-made bonsai ceramics, to a wide variety of bonsai trees of all stages of development to get you started with the hobby. With beautiful hand-painted scrolls, bronzes, bonsai stands and so much more, it was well worth the visit.
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