Tonight was the Annual General Meeting and the club had a lot to discuss and decide, with our winter show now behind us
Best Mame in Show (Japanese Black Pine height 10 cm)
The 6th Annual British Shohin Association Show was held at Willowbog Bonsai, Northumberland. You will find the full Show Report here
Best Shohin Display: Mark and Ritta Cooper
Best Mame Composition
Walsall Ceramics suiban, Henk Frensen bronze
The Independent newspaper are running an article on Bonsai enthusiasts in the UK. You may have noted if you were at our winter show this year, Dan Burn-Forti a freelance photographer was taking portraits for the piece and they’ve come out just great. The article is in today’s paper, I recommend you grab
Garden sieves went on special at Aldi today (for a limited time) perfect for separating out the particle sizes of your Akadama, Kiryu, Pumice and such like. They are £4.99 each so a bit of bargain, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
You’ll find them here
This year our Winter Image Show was sponsored by John Pitt and he also put on a stunning display at the show too of three of his amazing Blackthorns (Prunus spinosa). They are all crafted from collected material (Yamadori) from various mountainous regions of Wales and he collected them around 18 years ago and the ramification he has achieved on them is exquisite.
Winning accent by Ian Warhurst of Wirral Bonsai Society
There were a range of fabulous accents on display at our show and here is a brief gallery showing some of them that I captured on the day…
The following collection of images were all taken at our Winter Image Show and are the individual elements of the superb Shohin and Mame displays. I have tried to include at least one tree or more from each display so you can see the trees up close and personal and they are in no particular order.
Here are details of the visiting clubs and societies that attend our winter image show…
Here are links to two short videos that have been uploaded to youtube that show a brief tour of some of the trees that were on display at our 10th Anniversary Winter Image Show, hope you enjoyed the show for all those who visited it and hope those that didn’t can get a flavour from the video clips.
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This year there was a new exhibit at our show and it was the Shohin and Mame displays in association with the British Shohin Association. There were some great trees on display and the winner for the Best Mame display went to Bob Bailey of Swindon & District Bonsai Society, while the Best Shohin display went to Mark and Ritta Cooper.
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