Visiting Lodder Bonsai and buying new trees to add to your bonsai collection or even if you are just starting one is so much fun.
We have spent a lot of time, well days looking around the bonsai nursery selecting and reselecting trees to add to our trolley. If you have never been then it is well worth a trip to Lodder Bonsai at Hugo de Vriesweg 1, 3481 JA Harmelen, Nederland and they are open most days and welcome visitors.
1st place, SM Hornbeam
3rd place, PR Chinese Elm
Raffle prize of 3 rolls of wire
Thank you to Graham Simpson for his generous donation of three rolls of wire for our raffle at the Swindon Winter Image Show on Sunday 26th February 2017. Graham will also have trees on display at Swindon so look out for his trees and don’t forget to buy your raffle tickets either on the door or throughout the day.
Here is the Commemorative pot designed and made by Andrew Pearson aka Andy of Stone Monkey in support of the British Legion. The pot will be at the Swindon Winter Image Show on Sunday 26th February 2017 and on display on the Swindon club sales table. Andy will have the raffle tickets for sale at our show and also various shows during the year that he is trading which you can buy for your chance to win this bonsai pot.
February 26th Swindon Winter Image Show
Solent Showing at Heathrow Bonsai Show in October 2016
Solent Bonsai Society (affiliated to FOBBS) was founded in 1978 when a few enthusiasts met in a Fareham pub and agreed to start the Society, and to this day is still attended by some of the founder membership, next year we are looking forward to celebrating our 40th anniversary. The society meets on the last Friday of the month (not December) just outside Fareham at the Wallington Village Hall, Broad Cut, Fareham, Hampshire, PO16 8ST. You will be able to see their latest bonsai display at our Swindon Winter Image Show on Sunday 26th February 2017 and meet some of their club members.
Award Success for Swindon members at the Noelanders Trophy XVIII 2017, Genk, Belgium
Swindon Bonsai Society members Mark and Ritta Cooper have become frequent exhibitors over recent years at both our Winter Image show and the Noelanders Trophy. They entered the Noelanders Trophy for the first time back in 2013.
Stone Monkey Raffle prize
A huge thank you to Andy Pearson of Stone Monkey Ceramics for his donation of one of his stunning pots as a raffle prize for the Swindon Winter Image Show on Sunday 26th February. Raffle tickets will be available on sale at the door as well as throughout the day so don’t forget to buy yours and there will also be many more prizes to win, so hope you are lucky.
Dan Barton of Esoteric pots will be selling his pots at the forth coming Swindon Winter Image Show on Sunday 26th February 2017. Dan Barton has been making pots for bonsai for 45 years. Virtually all of his pots are made using the ‘coiling’ technique and no two pots are the same. He mostly works to commission when a special pot is required for your special tree. Dan’s pots show an amazing range of shapes, sizes, colours and innovation and he has pioneered many glaze effects. Although he rarely has any ‘speculative’ pots available, he is hoping to make a few specially for our Swindon Show.
The Swindon Winter Image Bonsai Show is to be held on Sunday 26th February 2017. It is a show that is open to the general public and the doors will open at 10.30am on the Sunday morning. Entry is £5.00 and raffle tickets will also be on sale at the door and throughout the day with the draw at 2.30pm after the awards have been awarded at 2pm.