Devising a plan, apart from keeping it alive is one of the best things you can do for your bonsai. At our last club meeting we decided to discuss a way ahead for a selection of our trees – I suppose you could consider this as the minutes.
TA: Siberian Elm, wants to copy an ancient oak from nature which is leaning over and to keep it as a small tree
1st place – PB, Hawthorn
2nd place – SM, Larch
3rd place – DH
Another nice show at Failands, Near Bristol. Unfortunately, I had to leave before any awards were announced.
The society was invited to exhibit at this year’s Wanborough Show, a non-profit local show to Swindon with a good selection of entertainment, you can find out more about the show here or enjoy pictures of our trees
BB: Japanese Holly, Waterfall scroll with Kingfisher bronze depicting a water based scene
We call it Tokonoma night but as Mr Bailey pointed out these are, quite rightly, three point displays. Three point display night sounds more like something one would do in a car park though so we’ll go with Tokonoma for now.
1st place – DH, Korean Hornbeam
2nd place – AW, Korean Hornbeam
3rd place – MP, Japanese Maple
Wellingtonia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)
If you are fascinated by trees then you cannot but love the Cupressaceae family of which belong the Redwoods, Wellingtonia and the Swamp Cypress and you should consider them a challenge to bonsai.
Korean Hornbeam
There are three main components to tree physiology and they are the roots, the trunk and the crown and here is a brief guide in the context of bonsai trees which are only a scaled down version of a regular tree. Any tree or shrub or plant can be used for bonsai but some work better than others so select your species well and some of the elements of the bonsai tree will work better for this.
Award winners from Bonsai World 2013 at K2 Crawley. Photos courtesy of Mark Cooper.
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