Ian opens the meeting with a warm up routine......... which seems to include big fish, little fish, cardboard box!!!
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Peter Warren starts appreciating small pots.
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A good turn out for a guest, as usual
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Peter appreciating both tree and pot?
Hi Everyone
Mr Peter Warren, is a shy quiet spoken gentleman and one of U.K
Finest Extremely Talented Bonsai Artist with a Long List of Credits to
his name He grew up in the North Yorkshire Countryside, Attended Leicester University
where he read Physics with Astrophysics before moving to Japan.That when he
found his True Calling and he began to study under Master Kunio
Kobayashi at
his garden, Shunkaen, in Tokyo. During this time he asked if he could
become his full time apprentice, a position he held for over Seven or more
years .Peter returns regularly to help out and to have the opportunity to learn
more and to use Peter’s
words “ as an apprentice it was an incredible learning
experience and was able to learn and acquire many techniques, ideas and
aesthetic principles and
adapt them for his own style" and has been passing on his
passion and techniques Since 2007. He has been traveling the World, Teaching
Bonsai and working with some of the Best Bonsai Trees in the USA, Europe and
Japan
Ian W our Chairman got the meeting underway and welcomed everyone
and introduced Mr Peter Warren who introduced his Presentation of Shohin
Bonsai Display + Evolution Display and
the Appreciation of Pots
and why Shohin and Mame Trees came about and spoke of Count
Malsudaira and Mr Nakamura Zeko as the fore-runners
for Displaying and showing
of Shohin Bonsai
It was very interesting and educational to see how Shohin and Mame
Bonsai have progressed from those early days and the whole audience were once again enthralled
and captivated by what Peter was saying During a short break Peter was chatting with members
and advising a few on their Bonsai Trees also another this gave members time to
look at the Large Number on Bonsai Pots and Bonsai Books so a Grateful
THANK-YOU brought into one of our Last Sunday of the month workshop at the GGC
many thanks for thinking of us that was Extremely kind indeed
There were a good gathering with around 24 and
another well know face amongst us as Mr Simon Temblett Another of UK
Finest Bonsai Artists also a Potter and Sculpture, producing some of his own
bespoke Bonsai Pots, also attended Peter’s presentation and more
about Mr Simon
Temblett can be found at
Bonsai can be classified into different groups by size. The
size of Bonsai is generally measured as the distance between the top of the
soil and the apex of the bonsai tree. Below is the classification of Bonsai of
different sizes.
Keishi Bonsai (thumb size) Up to 1 inch (2.5 cm)
in height
Shito Bonsai (very small) Up to 3 inch (7.5
cm) in height
Mame Bonsai
(mini)
To 6 inch (15 cm) in height
Shohin Bonsai
(small)
Up to 8 inch (20 cm) in height
Kifu Sho Bonsai (medium) Up to 16 inch (40.5 cm)
in height
Chu Bonsai (medium large) Up to 24 (61 cm) inch in
height
Dai Bonsai
(large)
Up to 40 (101.5 cm) inch in height
These Standard Rules that become important and are helpful in
shows and competitions Sometimes measures are not sharply outlined, and the
exact height of the Bonsai tree does not hold very strictly. For example, the
majority of Shohin Bonsai at most Bonsai Shows are Approximately 8 inches
(20 cm) or less in height, .but an Elegant, Slim Bonsai Tree may easily
override the limit in height and still be considered as a Shohin., This is same
for Mame Bonsai.
Basically, the main “rule” is that we must be able to hold our
Shohin Bonsai and Mame Bonsai on the Palm. of one Hand Expressing the
beauty of a Large aged tree in Miniature.
Info from
http://www.happybonsai.com/classification-bonsai-based-size/
Once again it was a Privilege and Honour to have Peter’s
Presentation of Shohin Bonsai Display + Evolution Display and the
Appreciation of Pots for us all at Wirral Bonsai Society and to read
more about Mr Peter Warren please go to
also at
It was an evening well spent and made a lot Members think that its
not all about the Medium to Large Bonsai Trees that are Appealing and
Beautiful being SMALL IS Definitely Beautiful
At the End of the evening Ian W thanked Peter for a most
Interesting and Inspired presentation and asked Peter to do the honors and
chose a Tree Of The Month which he obliged and Peter chose an Crab Apple Tree
owned by Sean D
On the Last Sunday of the Month the 29th of April we
all back at our Favourite
Venue Gordales Award Winning Garden Center (GGC) so we hope to see you there Bring in any on your Bonsai Trees were
we will do our utmost to advise and help in anyway our members can or just join
us all for a chat about anything Bonsai Related
Take care look after each other and all your Bonsai Trees
Jim thelad
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