We invite you to come along to our show this Sunday on the 23rd of February 2014 at the Stratton Community Leisure Centre, Grange Drive, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN3 4JY. It is open from 10:30am to 4:30pm with a £5 entrance fee. The show will include Bonsai exhibitions by our own Club Members, well known bonsai artists and visiting Bonsai clubs and societies in addition to:-
Simon Haddon of Suteki has kindly donated a few accent pots to the Swindon Winter Image Show Raffle so get ready for a great weekend this weekend and hopefully win a raffle prize or two.
Myrciaria cauliflora Jabotica
If you are looking to keep bonsai but do not have space outside or just want to keep a bonsai tree inside then look no further than at tropical bonsai tree species as these need warmer growing conditions and are ideal to keep indoors.
This time of year the Callicarpa is in it’s element with bright luminescent purple berries on the winter leafless tracery of delicate branches.
UK Bonsai Tables
Thank you to Adrian Long of UK Bonsai Tables for donating another great raffle prize to our Winter Image Show. You can have the chance to win this fabulous prize by entering our raffle on Sunday 23rd February at the show.
Dan Barton bonsai pots
Dan & Cecilia Barton have donated some fantastic pots for our Winter Show raffle, you can see some more of the vast range of unique, exquisite pots he makes on their website. Come along and try and win one, or alternatively buy one, they will be joining us at the show.
Bonsai nibblers
Thank you to Chris Guise for donating these brilliant carving tools to the Swindon Show raffle. Chris for anyone who has yet to see it is the creator of the most exquisite Biblo Baggins bonsai house entitled Bag End Bonsai Trayscape. He is also a bonsai enthusiast from the local area in Maidenhead and is a mechanical engineer by trade.
Lodders Raffle Prizes
These prizes, kindly donated to our Winter Show raffle by Gerrit Lodder of Lodder Bonsai bv and Hoka-En Bonsai Studio, NL
Walsall Studio Ceramics are to be a trader at our Winter Image Show 
and they have kindly donated a pot for the raffle which can be won on Sunday 23rd February by entering the raffle.
This is a very unusual species of tree to use as a bonsai and is from the Rhamnacea family. It is named after the Dutch botanist Berthout van Berchem and has some great characteristics that lend themselves to bonsai.
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