I have been admiring the shohin displays on one of the Japanese Blogs that I follow. I have been allowed to share these with you here. Taken at the Kanagawa Union Bonsai Exhibition. This is an amateur exhibition with trees from several clubs in the Kanagawa area.
Harry, my Dutch friend has shared some more photos with me.
These where taken at a club exhibition yesterday. It’s a relatively new club who are exhibiting their trees in order to attract some new members.
The group was initiated and is still facilitated by Johan van Frankenhuyzen, a bonsai-enthusiast from their local garden centre. Website . I’m told that he is the driving force behind the hobby group.
Bruno Wijman is the lead in their workshops through the world of bonsai art and techniques. This is his website.
Here are a few photos from the exhibition. If I get any links for more photos, I’ll update the post.
Harry from Holland, my Dutch Bonsai Reporter, came through for me again with this batch of photographs taken this weekend at the Dutch Bonsai Association 40th Anniversary Show. More info can be read HERE
Well not quite, some from his and some from his Dad’s place were he keeps a lot of his trees.
Some of the wee ones he keeps at his own place.
And a few bigger ones there for some work.
and now up at his Dad’s place.
Checing the filter to see why the pond has dropped 12″!
A bit of everything
Collected material
The magic tunnel
Some of the smaller trees.
Scots Pine
Yew
Scots Pine
The setting of the sun, time to go home.
Sharing this as part of the greater bonsai Community in the UK.
It’s the Enfield Group’s Autumn Show on 14th October. Looks like a great day out with some great traders and the Final of the UK New Talent Competition to boot. A bit far for me but I know many of you live close enough travel.
I called over to see Bertie yesterday in a successful attempt to avoid shopping with my wife. We spent a very enjoyable hour or so sitting among his bonsai chatting and even playing around with a tree. As you walk up the steps to Bertie’s tree area, this is what greets you.
Like myself, he is struggling this year to keep on top of the weeds! Never had a year like it for unwanted accents!! Anyway I used my old faithful portable backdrop to photograph some of his smaller trees.
This Cotoneaster in a decent pot next year will be a cracker little tree.
Another Cotoneaster that I repotted with Bertie earlier in the year is doing well.
Japanese Maple
A nice little Hornbeam.
A sumo Spindle.
His cracking little Satsuki
Larch.
Another as yet unstyled Larch that I just love.
A nice Scottie
and to finish off, a lovely Potentilla
Thought I’d share this here for all those UK based enthusiasts. In fact, that’s rather restrictive, feel free to attend from wherever you are!
I have cut and pasted the below info from the Facebook page recently set up. I have clicked the ‘Maybe’ button for attendance but I’ll have to wait until closer to the time before I know if I can attend. Seeing who is doing the organising, I can assure you that this will be a quality event.
On behalf of the organising team, I am pleased to announce that an exciting national UK Shohin Bonsai show dedicated to smaller bonsai, will be held on Sunday, March 24th 2013. This exciting national event is being organised by Mark & Ritta Cooper and Bob Bailey, with the support of the Bristol Bonsai Society, the British Shohin Association, and the Federation of British Bonsai Societies.
This will be the only UK national exhibition dedicated to Shohin bonsai in 2013 and will be a “must visit event” for all Shohin Bonsai enthusiasts.
I get asked to talk to various groups about bonsai during the year. I always try and spread the word as and when I can. On Monday I got a call from a local men’s group reminding me about a talk today! As I’m still not allowed to drive or lift things with my right arm I had to call on Michael, aka Futter With Trees, to give me a hand. It was one of those nice venues, you know the type, no parking, upstairs room and a long walk through doors with arms full of trees! Glad I wasn’t doing the carting 😀
Did my usual talk about bonsai, What are they, their history, the shapes and styles, their care etc. All went well and Michael even took a few snaps of me blethering away. As you can see I take a selection of trees to display and talk through as part of the session. Everyone was in a suit and tie and there was me, the guest speaker in jeans and a t-shirt 😀 Michael said he also dressed down just to help take the bad look off me!!
I don’t really expect to get any new club members from this today but you never know. I’ve seen these things snowball and produce members via family members etc.
I had the pleasure of judging the bonsai entries at the Rose Show in Belfast yesterday. I small local flower show held as part of the bigger Rose Week event at Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park.
The bonsai aspect was small, our club supports the Rose Society by always getting a few entries in to fill the space and add interest for the public. As far as bonsai go, it’s not what we aspire too in our own displays with the usual low tables and cramped space. For that reason and the poor photos that resulted from inside a marquee, I’ll not bombard you with poor quality photos. I will however share some photos taken from within the park itself showing both the roses and some nice trees.
First, photos from inside the flower show marquee during judging. The rest from within the park Rose Gardens and Japanese Garden. When I show the Rose name it’s because is a highly perfumes variety that my wife is determined to add to our garden.
Nekotoban was kind enough to share these photos with me in a recent email and I thought I would share them with you lot as well. Photos taken at the Kurume Azalea Festival back in April. What I’d give to go and see this for myself!
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