Posts categorised: Club Meetings

Wiring workshop

Wiring was the theme for this months workshop for our members. Some like it, some loath it. The process can be fiddly and time consuming but learning to do it well can help bring a better structure and a precisely defined look to your trees.

Project trees

Devising a plan, apart from keeping it alive is one of the best things you can do for your bonsai. At our last club meeting we decided to discuss a way ahead for a selection of our trees – I suppose you could consider this as the minutes.

Tokonoma Night

We call it Tokonoma night but as Mr Bailey pointed out these are, quite rightly, three point displays. Three point display night sounds more like something one would do in a car park though so we’ll go with Tokonoma for now.

Thermal imaging Bonsai

Thermography is a well know tool used widely for technical investigations of buildings, for archaeology, biology and arboriculture to name a few examples, and I was inquisitive to see how bonsai trees show up under a thermal image camera having used thermal imaging on trees before to assess health and to look for dysfunctional areas on… Read more »

Mark & Ritta talk Japan

Mark and Ritta Cooper presented a talk on Japan, Bonsai Shows and more specifically their passion, Shohin…in Japan. The talk was nicely varied, its subject appeals to both beginner and the advanced bonsai enthusiast. Topics included, favourite nurseries in Japan, shows, pots, displays, people, culture oh and even a bit about food. If you are… Read more »