If you wanted to see a collection of some of the smaller bonsai trees, then today at the UKBA 3rd Bonsai Auction was your chance. There was a stunning collection of miniature bonsai including some beautiful stones and landscape plantings too from various members of the bonsai community. Take a look at the gallery below to see some of them in more detail as they are exquisite.
Today was a great opportunity to buy a bonsai at the 3rd UKBA Bonsai Auction held at Sandhurst School in Berkshire. The event was well attended with many of the bonsai community present and ready to buy bonsai trees and pots. In the first post are the photos from some of the trees and items on sale in the auction and there will be a follow-up post of the bonsai tree displays and suiseki displays.
Another date for the diary is the Twickenham Bonsai Club Winter Display on Sunday 5th February 2023 at Twickenham School, Percy Road, TW2 6JW. For more information about Twickenham Bonsai club visit their website.
A date for your diary is the 22nd of January for the UKBA Bonsai Auction at Sandhurst School, Owlsmoor Road, Owlsmoor, Sandhurst, Berkshire, GU47 0SD.
Come along for the auction as well as a Suisek, Saikei and Mame Show. Admission is £3 cash and children under 16 accompanied are free.
The show and doors open at 10 am and the auction starts at 11 am and closes at 4 pm.
The auction is strictly cash only and there are no bonsai traders at this event. The parking is free and tea and coffee will be available.
For any queries contact Mark Moreland at ukbaauction@gmail.com or on 07850 771201.
If you still want to submit items for the auction then visit the UKBA Auction website for more details, the closing date is the 15th of January.
Funeral:- Kingsdown Crematorium, Kingsdown Road, Swindon, SN25 6SG at 1030 am Monday the 9th Jan 2023.
It’s with sadness that I have to post that Dennis died in Swindon Hospital on the 16th December following a fall.. No details are known about his funeral at the moment, as soon as we are aware I will update this post. Dennis was a long standing member of the club and in May 2017 made a lifetime member. He will be sadly missed.
Our December meeting had a Christmas theme. We held a decorate your bonsai tree, instead of our usual tree of the month competition. Of course, we still held a competition for the best decorated tree using our in-house voting system.
Note: As all displays are Tokonoma based within a 6-foot defined area, the judges will be taking into account the whole display.
The main Judges will award numbers 1 – 5, number 6 is judged and awarded by John Trott.
Once the judges have decided the award, it will be placed with the tree and photographed with the owner, there is no Presentation Ceremony, saving time so the visitors can view the displays for longer and allowing the awards to be on the tables soonest, so the visitors to the show know which display has won what. Awards of Merit may also be placed on the tables with the appropriate display.
Shohin size will be approx 20 cm from soil.
The other weekend, one of the Swindon newer members ‘Claudia’ attended a workshop at Beechfield bonsai nursery, run by Harry Harrington and his apprentices. Harry owner of Bonsai 4 Me and author of a number of books…… http://bonsai4me.com/shop/
Tonight was all about wiring and Mark Kerry did a talk on the principles of wiring followed by one-to-one guidance on wiring specific club members’ trees to aid with their own wiring.
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