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 (CH43 1UU).

  • 9th January- AGM
  • 13th February-Swindon Show prep
  • 24th Feb -Gordale Workshop
  • 3rd March -Gordale Workshop -Steve Tolley
  • 13th March - Members Tree Critique Club show prep
  • 10th April- Tony Tickle/Terry Foster -Fine wiring and ramification
  • 28th April -Gordale Workshop
  • 9th May-Peter Warren Subject TBC
  • 26th May Gordale Workshop
  • 12th June-John Moffat-Great trees of the Wirral
  • 30th June -Gordale Workshop
  • 10th July- Simon Jones-Subject TBC
  • 28th July -Gordale Workshop
  • 14th August- Club Show Tree selection
  • 25th August -Gordale Workshop
  • 21st-22nd September -Club show -Gordale
  • 11th September-Post show talk- New Member Introduction
  • 29th September-Gordale Workshop
  • 9th October- TBC
  • 27th October -Gordale Workshop
  • 14th November- John Armitage- Japanese Exploits
  • 24th November -Gordale Workshop
  • 11th 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.

Monday, 18 April 2011

April Meeting- Critique 2


The effects of a new baby kicking in?........

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Really having an effect now.......

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April Meeting- Critique

Sean's Crab Apple

- Lee exaggerating.... a lot.

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Andy H's Maple, looking good as usual.

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Tony.... not quite so boastfull!!

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Another good show of members at Wednesday Meeting and the Tree Analysis/ Critique" was extremely well presented with Dave Y opening the meeting with a few words about Both Societies ( W-B-S AND V-O-C-B-S ) being represented at "The Best Of Britain Bonsai Show" The session was then kicked off by asking the owner's of the Tree to give a little insight into their tree, what developments and what is the next step to try and move their tree forward . - Ken, brought his tree up to the Table and got the Critique rolling and Lee was first up with his opinions followed by Andy and Tony and all 3 had the members participating in the discussion and this continued all the way through the evening with over 2 Dozen Trees on show and for me it was great to see members participating with suggestions.

Tree of the Month- April

ToTM for April was this beautiful Maple belonging to Sean D.

Nice one...

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Best of British Bonsai 2011

The tree selected as the Best in show
Below is the link to the discussions on last weekends Best of British Bonsai

http://ibonsaiclub.forumotion.com/t6210-best-of-british-2011

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Bonsai Site of the Month -April


An obvious one this month..... I'm sure you know the event but here's a link to get your directions and be sure you have enough pennies to pay to get in!!

http://www.bbb2011.com/ ---------
- Good luck to all exhibitors.