Next Months Meeting 5th March

At the next meeting we will have the most excellent Mr Peter Warren guiding and assisting us with re-potting. Be sure to come along and get some top tips and pointers. Peter is fairly unique as he has only been taught the Japanese way of Bonsai as he apprenticed with Kunio Kobayashi for many years in Japan. More information about Peter can be found here

Look forward to seeing you there, and your tree's of course.

Bonsai Boot Sale

BONSAI BOOT SALE
SUNDAY 11th March 2012
8 am to 12pm
In the Car Park of
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
& Glasshouses
Westbourne Road, Edgbaston
To book space 01543 685600.
£15 per boot payable on the day.

Swindon Winter Image Show

Well in a few weeks it will be the Swindon Winter Image show on Sunday 19th Feb. This show proves to be one of the best UK Bonsai shows that happens in the Bonsai calender. I am literally running around getting the final pots glazed and fired, including some commissions that customers are desperatly waiting for. Hope to see you there if you are going and if you are going pop by and say hello to Simon and me. More information can be found here

Next Month's Meeting

Next Month's meeting is on the 6th February and it is a general "Open Workshop"

Be sure to bring along your trees and tools as I am sure the hall will be busy with snipping and wiring in all directions. Some of you may have even started to repot as the weather has been all over the place recently. I know that "Tree of the Month" will start to hot up as some of the club members have been on a trip to the Noelanders Trophy in Belgium and I know it will have fuelled their fire, eh Andy?

Look forward to see you there

Noelanders Trophy XIII

I am still trying to get my head over, what can only be described as a fantastic weekend away in Belgium. Not only meeting old and new friends that I had not seen for over a year but also fantastic outstanding quality Bonsai of the highest order and the best sales I have ever had at any show ever.

There was a large contigent of Brits who had had their trees selected for the event and they definately stood proud and sometimes outshone some of the competition on display. My favorite tree of the whole exhibition was Simon Temblett's Willow. Grown from a cutting 25 years ago, the tree was testement what you can do without forking out thousands of pounds for imported material with copious amounts of deadwood.

The winning tree was an ex-Kimura Tree owned by Mario Stemberger from Italy. Not my "bag" but a great tree nonetheless If you can make the show next year it is well worth the trip and I personally know that there are club members who have trees that are well upto the mark of this acclaimed show. You know who you are, why not submit your trees for selection next.

On another note. I am now Bonsai-less and no longer possess any trees. I will be concentrating all my available time on ceramics and will represent the pot part of bonsai at the club meetings, of which I will still attend. So you have not got rid of me that easily....

FOR SALE Juniper Semi Cascade

Sorry Guys n Gals

Hi ho hi ho its of to Noelanders we go.....on my own this year

Well Les S is going but he is travelling over with some of his ol' gang from the Wirral Club. I suppose he has to keep in with them now and again.

The rest of this week for me is packing up my wares, with plenty of bubble wrap, to get my pots over for sale at the event. I have been trading here for the last 5 years and its always a good weekend. The trees are outstanding with a huge BRIT contingent showing their trees also.

I will post some pictures on the BLOG on my return so for those of you that could not go, you can see what all the fuss is about.

I am also selling off the last of my trees so all my time will be dedicated to ceramics, thats if I sell them