Ashfield Bonsai Club: 2011

Friday, 23 December 2011

Merry Christmas & welcome to our new follower.

Ashfield Bonsai Club members would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy & prosperous New Year.

Thanks for joining us Simon, we hope you enjoy reading the blog.

Quite a few of us are going to the Noelanders trophy towards the end of January so keep watching this space for pictures of the event and of members trees on show at the trophy.

Happy holidays

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Welcome to our new member.

A warm welcome to our new follower Kristian.

Hi Kristian, nice to see you here, we hope you enjoy the blog.

Noelanders 2012 Show

Great news for the club.

3 members of Ashfield Bonsai Club have had confirmation that trees have been accepted for the Noelanders 2012 Show.

John Pitt, Mike Rose and myself will all be showing trees at the show.

Watch this space for photographs a plenty.

Saturday, 19 November 2011

ABC auction & competition for trees purchased from previous auctions

It was auction night, the most eagerly awaited night of the year.
Also this year we decided to hold a competition for trees purchased at previous auctions.

Here are a few pictures from the evening;

Philip Anthony awards the cup (sponsored by Philip) to Pete for his winning tree a Juniper Procumbens (shown below)

Pete's winning Juniper Procumbens

John's 2nd placed Juniper Procumbens

Mike's 3rd place Trident forest planting

Chris's Larch

Chris's root over rock field maple

Tony's hawthorn

Derek's escallonia

PICTURES OF THE AUCTION TABLE

Mr Pitt braved the crowds this year and stepped in as auctioneer for the first half of the evening as I'd been to the dentist and was having trouble keeping my chin dry...

A lovely planting of 3 chinese elms

Cotoneasters, hawthorn and english yew

Tony scans the sales table....you'll notice that his wife had tied his arms behind his back so that he couldn't make any bids....

Large white pine, 3 pines in a plastic tub, small acer and an escallonia

Crab apple with lovely coloured fruits

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Welcome to our latest 3 followers.

A warm welcome to Will, Sandor & Pedro.
Thanks for joining us guys, we hope you enjoy the blog.

Monday, 7 November 2011

It's been a long time

Sorry it's been so long since our last post.
Here are a few pictures taken at our last club night.

Crazy Chris Dodds takes out his rage on an unsuspecting rock planting of larch on tufa

Mr Pitt and Mr Hill discuss the complexities of the world economic crisis and Derek's juniper

Peter Tombs lovely juniper, recently worked on with Pete Warren

Mike Rose works on his pine group, Dave Shore snorts recreational drugs from Mikes shirt

Paul Warder's english oak...what a crap tree....mine died over the winter....I'm not bitter

John's juniper rigida

Deadwood detail to the rear of the rigida

John's hinoki, recently purchased from crazy Cris Dodds

Paul Warder's lovely mulberry

Vere works on his english elm, field grown from a cutting for 10 years, lovely bark texture.

In an effort to assist with getting the UK economy back on track, ABC are having their yearly auction on Thursday 17th November.
There will also be a competion for trees purchased at previous auctions, which will be voted on by club members.
New members or visitors are welcome to attend the auction, however we will not let you buy the good stuff....what good stuff I hear all the members shout !!
It's a great night not to be missed.......bring your wads of cash.

Saturday, 17 September 2011

I forgot Tonys white pine !!

Tony's white pine

The 3 category winners.

Friday, 16 September 2011

Welcome to our new follower

Hi Rodrigo, thanks for joining us, hope you enjoy the blog

John

2011 annual club show

Another great turn out for this years show, the voting in the 3 size catagories was very close, a testament to the improving quality of members trees.

Here are pics of all the trees displayed.