Bonsai Review 56

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WBS @ Swindon Winter Image Show

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

Bonsai in Wales 2012

Get your trees in......

Happy Birthday Blog

Well... hasn't time flown...

I'd like to say a big thank you to Jim for his excellent input over the last year, long may it continue.
It's safe to say his input has given a fresh impetuous to the blog content, something that was probably waining due my time being taken up elsewhere.

Bonsai Boot Sale

BONSAI BOOT SALE

SUNDAY 11^th 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.

Blog Interaction

You may notice a new addition below every post, its an addition to Blogger that allows linking posts to popular social network sites, endorsing posts to other bloggers and commenting on posts.
See what you think and use as you see fit.
Plus Iv'e removed the blog poll at the bottom of the page (which suffered from multiple spam votes!) and replaced it with a list of the most recent popular posts.
Cheers
Iain

Club Diary 2012

printable club diary 2012
provided by Doug

World Bonsai Photo Contest

Contest poster

WORLD BONSAI PHOTO CONTEST

In 2008 you were notified of the WBFF International Photo Contest, albeit at a rather late date to expect to receive  large numbers of entries from the UK. I was asked to retrieve, rather belatedly, a situation which had been outside the control of FOBBS and to take on the task of obtaining entries from the European Region. I should have had 12 months in which to do this task and in the event I had just two. Despite this, and with your co-operation, I did succeed in getting 25 entries for this competition; 10 of those entries came from the UK. In 2009 the competition was judged and 20 of the European photos were displayed at the World Convention held that year in Puerto Rico. Subsequently the new WBFF President, Mr Hu from China, offered to publish a book containing all those judged to be “winning trees”, some 170 trees in all. This book was produced by November of last year and free copies were available for all those whose trees appeared among the pages.

These books were available for us to collect while at the ASPAC Convention in Takamatsu, Japan last November, and extremely heavy they were to bring home (in our case 20 copies for the UK & Europe).

I am attaching the Poster, Requirements for entry, and the Entry Form itself. I hope you will print these out and  consider entering one of your trees. As proven by ‘Best of British’ and other shows staged in the UK, we have some amazing trees, and so, with plenty of time to get our acts together, lets show the rest of the World Bonsai public what we are capable of.

Kath Hughes

European Co-ordinator, World Bonsai Photo Contest

Requirements for entry

Entry form