Posts Tagged: bonsai

Guangzhou Haizhu district Peihong Primary School

As part of the Bonsai Clubs International (BCI) Convention we got to visit Guangzhou Haizhu district Peihong Primary School (广州市海珠区培红小学), South China Bonsai heritage base. It was a fantastic field trip and we were met to an audience of the children who sang a greeting and provided us all with a range of gifts and… Read more »

Bonsai Shohin Passion

This book has gained a lot of attention since it began production, and deservedly so. One of very few books available targeting specifically smaller shohin sized trees, and an intermediate to advanced audience – it covers a series of case studies of Roland’s own trees through many years of development. His writing style is both… Read more »

Shohin displays at BCI convention

Wow, what an amazing collection of Shohin and Mame trees on display at the recent open air Bonsai Clubs International Convention in Guangzhou, China. This was a stunning outdoor series of displays set off with a good backdrop and a very visually clean image being presented. It was great to see so many styles of… Read more »

2015 BCI Convention Guangzhou, China

This year we attended the 2015 Bonsai Clubs International Convention and Asian-Pacific Bonsai and Viewing Stone Convention & Exhibition, which was held in Guangzhou, China which is known as the ‘City of Flowers’.

Large Gold @ Newbury Show

Congratulations to Newbury and District Bonsai Society for receiving a large Gold medal for their display at the recent Royal County of Berkshire Show near Newbury Show in September. A good diversity of tree species, sizes and good overall composition of the display.

Displays @Bonsai World 2015

This weekend it was Bonsai World 2015 presented by the Sussex Bonsai Group at K2 Centre in Crawley, West Sussex. It was also in memory of Ray Ward and proved to again be a very good show at a superb venue.

Bristol Bonsai Show

An excellent show as usual. Some lovely trees and accents on show. Lots of lovely, trees, pots and accents to buy. Awards for bonsai of excellence to: Malcolm Darbon – Black pine John Trott – Trident maple Mark cooper – Chinese elm Dan Barton – J.Hillier elm Alan Maggs – Rowan Ritta Cooper – English… Read more »

Accents @Bonsai World 2015

The accents at Bonsai World 2015 were great, here is a selection of some of them that formed part of individual and club displays. A good range of ferns, hosta’s, grasses and many more species and presented in some colourful and very artistic pots.

Hostas as accents with Steve McKee

It was a busy night in Swindon, the majority of members turned up plus some visitors from Wales to enjoy Steve McKee’s talk. The more the merrier and it made for a very fun evening.