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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
  • 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.

Monday, 20 February 2012

WBS @ Swindon Winter Image Show



Best accent by Ian Warhurst

At the Swindon Winter image Show it has been confirmed that Scousers have the Best Accent, they beat off the Welsh, Scots Midlanders and all comers to prove that the Scouse Accent is Best.


Well done lads for getting a Merit Award for the Club Display and winning Best Accent Award at this prestigious show


Les S (Scouser in Exile)

Results where-
  • Best Shohin display was by Mark & Ritta Cooper
  • Best Mame display was by Bob Bailey
  • Best Conifer was the Chinese Juniper that was owned by Martin Shepherd
  • Best Deciduous tree was the Trident Maple by Mark Cooper
  • Best Chuhin was the Elm of Will Baddeley
  • Best Visiting Society was the Artistic Bonsai Circle
  • Best Accent sponsored by John Trott was by Ian Warhurst from Wirral Bonsai Society
  • Best in Show was the Trident Maple of Mark Cooper
  • Best Tree/Pot combination was the Pyracantha by Mark Cooper
  • Best individual Shohin award from the British Shohin Association went to Paul Hunt of Swindon & District Bonsai Society
  • Special Merit award was given to Wirral Bonsai Society

Pictures can be seen using links below.
http://swindon-bonsai.co.uk/2012/02/20/our-winter-show-results/#more-4100

http://yamadoriforsale.com/2012/02/20/swindon-winter-image-bonsai-show-2012-report-and-video/

Thanks to Jim for the links
Iain

2 comments:

Simon Haddon said...

Well done guys, well deseeved. Looking forward to catching-up again at Willowbog for Andy's 50th drink-i-poos,
Ook, Ook,
Bonsai Monkey

thelad said...

I am proud to be a member of Wirral Bonsai Society and I owe a Large thank-you to our Scouser in Exile Mr Les S for the opportunity to be a member of W-B-S so congrats to everyone and also to Swindon Bonsai Society for Hosting a Fantastic Winter Image Show
Jim thelad