Welcome

Hello and welcome to the Wirral Bonsai Society Blog - an ongoing diary & newsletter highlighting the adventures of the society & its members

Society Diary-We meet at 8pm every 2nd Wednesday of the month at the RAFA club in Oxton.

  • 11th January- AGM
  • 8th February-Swindon Show prep-Ian/Andy
  • 26th Feb -Gordale Workshop
  • 14th March - Members Tree Critique-Ian/Andy
  • 25th March -Gordale Workshop -Steve Tolley
  • 11th April- Peter Warren-Shohin/Accent display
  • 29th April -Gordale Workshop
  • 9th May-Pest talk-Richard Lewis
  • 27th May -Gordale Workshop
  • 13th June-Simon Temblett-Willow- Members Tree Dev.
  • 24th June -Gordale Workshop
  • 11th July- Auction of Club books
  • 29th July -Gordale Workshop
  • 8th August- Club Show Tree selection
  • 26th August -Gordale Workshop
  • 1st/2nd September -Club show -Gordale
  • 12th September-Post show talk- New Member Introduction
  • 30th September-Gordale Workshop
  • 10th October- John Armitage- Shohin Styling/Japan Tour
  • 28th October -Gordale Workshop
  • 14th November- TBA
  • 25th November -Gordale Workshop
  • 12th December- Club Party

Membership

New members are always welcome, just come along to one of our monthly meetings at the RAFA club. You can even 'try us out' for a few months before you decide on joining as an official member. The meetings are informal (there's a bar!) and the club members are (mostly) friendly, approachable and happy to pass on guidance and information to anybody interested in bonsai- whatever your level of experience.

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Gordale workshop October

A full compliment of members
another one doing a 'Tolley'
youve got to be kidding me.....
pleased with the results?
Hard work done?
Hi Everyone

On Sunday the 30th October 2011 The Penultimate Workshop before the end of the year there were a dozen members in attendance in no particular order Tom , Brian ,Dave Y, Sean D ,Bill G Andy H, Arthur, Steve H, Eddie and Ian W and it was an afternoon well spent at the Wonderful Awarding Winning Gordale'x Garden Center here in Wirral Peninsula

As usual members brought in a variety of Bonsai trees to work on such as a Spruce + Juniper's + Zelkova + Field Maple plus other Maples + Privets

During the day Dave Y, Andy H, Steve H , Eddie, Tom, Ian W and Sean D all interacted with the general public answer and helping them all out with their questions and their own Bonsai Trees that they had brought into the workshop. Sean D made a young ladies day as she was very very interested on how and why Sean was using Bonsai Wire on his Bonsai Tree and Sean spent some time explaining and showing the Lady and her partner how he wired his tree and explained the purpose for it. Andy H was also on hand to assist Two Young Boys and their Father in deciding what would be the best starter Bonsai Tree to purchase and having a reasonable success in keeping that species of tree alive and not having the failure that the Young Lads have had so far, so here's hoping they took Andy's advice and that they become regulars at the workshop from time to time.

We all from W-B-S would like to thank once again Mr and Mrs Nicholson and all their excellent and helpful staff for allowing our society to use the Gordale's Garden Center for our Workshop

It was an excellent day and we all enjoyed working on our bonsai trees and especially helping and working on members of public and we all would like thank them very much for taking time to bring their trees into the workshop and ask for the Bonsai Societies help and advice

Until the next time in November we all look forward to seeing you all again

Take care look after each other and all your Bonsai Trees

Jim thelad

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