Club Xmas Event - Ripley 17th December

meal at the Fish Restaurant in Ripley, followed by drinks at the Red Lion. photo to follow

note@ First meeting of 2019, 7:30pm Thursday 3rd January, church hall, South Normanton.

Calendar for the rest of 2018:

9^th August          Evening at Tony’s

16^th August        workshop

6^th September    workshop

20^th September  Club Show

4^th October         workshop

18^th October       workshop

1^st November     workshop

15^th November   Auction and Auction Tree Show

6^th December     Workshop

20^th December   Workshop

We are still here

August 2018

We are still here!, forgive us for the lack of posts, we lost the password.

The club is still very busy and active, we still meet 7:30pm every 1st and 3rd Thursday at St Michael's & All Angels Church Hall, South Normanton, DE55 2B, and we travel widely to UK and international shows. This year the highlight (so far!) was a trip in May to the Italian international bonsai show in Arco (lake Garda) Italy for a long weekend and some amazing bonsai and Italian food in a lovely setting.

We are still a "hands on" club, bring a tree, work on it at your own pace or ask for help or advice, our members have trees that range from beginner to international show level (but still learning).

Come and have a laugh, make friends, and develop your trees.

Annual club show 2016

Another year passes, and here we are at the club show again.
Here are the pictures of the trees that were bought along.

 Paul Warder wins best in show for his shohin Cotoneaster

 Ted wins best large tree for his Japanese Maple

 Ted wins best chuhin for his Korean Hornbeam

 Chuhin Japanese Maple

 Chuhin Azalea

 Best Chuhin, Korean Hornbeam

 Scots pine

 Scots Pine

 English Hawthorn

 Scots Pine group planting

 Crab apple

 Cedar

 Japanese Maple, winner of best large tree

Itoigawa juniper

 Cotoneaster  best shohin and winner of best in show

 Lonicera

Berberis

Annual Club Show September 2015

It's been some time since our last post, so what better way to make a comeback than with pictures from our annual show.
What a turn out it was, one of our bet shows for some time.

My apologies for the quality of the pictures with the black background, my camera just couldn't handle it.

SHOHIN CLASS

Chinese Elm

Prunus ?

 Crab Apple ?

Chinese Elm

Trident Maple (Winner of Shohin Class)

Cotoneaster

Itoigawa Juniper











CHUHIN CLASS

Mugo Pine

Japanese Maple

Olive








 

Cotoneaster (Winner of Chuhin Class)

Mugo Pine











DAI CLASS

Korean Hornbeam

Cedar

Blackthorn

Yew

Kishu Juniper

Cedar

English Hawthorn raft (Winner of Dai Class)

Club secretary Derek awards John Pitt for winner of the shohin (trident Maple) and dai class (English Hawthorn raft)

John Brocklehurst receives the award for winner of chuhin class and Best in Show (Cotoneaster)

Best in show, Cotoneaster is awarded the Dave Oliver memorial shield.

Peter Warren comes to Ashfield Bonsai Club

Peter Warren joined us at our last meeting.
He critiqued members trees, discussing the positive and negative aspects of each tree and offering possible improvements to the trees owner.
Another thoroughly enjoyable and informative evening was had with all members coming away with a better idea of how to develop their tree further.

Plenty of material for Peter to critique

The Ashfield massive

Lamb to the slaughter

Pete Tomb's Scot's pine

John Pitt's Scots pine

Paul's Berberis, Plan A failed, discussing Plan B

John's Carpinus....before

And after

Caz's Cork bark Maple on rock

Chris Dodd's Trident Maple on rock

Mike Rose's Yew

Tony's Juniper requires a change of angle

Mark's Maple

Paul's white Pine

Derek's Scots pine

Geoff's Mugo pine....before

And after removing several branches

Caz's Maple