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Awards for 2023 Winter Show

Best Visiting Club/Society Best Deciduous Display Best Evergreen Display Best Shohin Display Best Tree/Pot Combination, sponsored by Walsall Studio Ceramics Best Accent in Any Display, sponsored by Mendip Bonsai Studio and judged by John Trott Note: As all displays are Tokonoma based within a 6-foot defined area, the judges will be taking into account the… Read more »

Clive Knight club member display

Clive who is a more recent member of Swindon and also the Chairman of Warminster Bonsai put on a display with his Korean Hornbeam (Carpinusturczaninowii) which he has been developing for the past year. It was in a Japanese pot, accompanied by a scroll and accent.

Reg Bolton club member display

This year Reg had two trees on display; they were an English Elm (Ulmus procera) which he collected 21 years ago and in a Walsall ceramics pot. The density of the fine branches provides a very highly ramified crown which Reg has worked hard to develop through time and technique. It is great to see an… Read more »

Clive Harber club member display

Clive was exhibiting his Korean Hornbeam (Carpinus turczaninowii) this year at the show as a club member of Swindon. He has owned this tree since 2007 and it was originally bought from a bonsai trader and is now in a Japanese pot.

Stewart Beresford at our show

Stewart this year presented a very neat shohin display made up of four fantastic trees and a tiny fern accent. The display was beautiful, clean and simple and well balanced with some very high quality bonsai trees to enjoy up close and set on a wonderful root stand and within a delicate shohin display stand.

Andy Hardman at our show

Andy’s shohin display was a three-tree display with two accompanying accents. It presented a light and well-balanced image with good levels of diversity and interest with a flowering Cherry (Prunus incisa kojo-no-mai) in full bloom on a delicate cascade stand.  With the Juniper (Juniperus) and Elm (Ulmus) were Grape hyacinths (Muscari).

Alan Redford club member display

This year was the first year for Alan to put on a bonsai display as a club member and he presented his Japanese larch (larix kaempferi). He has grown it from seed for the past 15 years and it is in a brown slipware pot. To accompany the larch was an English Elm, which he has grown… Read more »