Ashfield Bonsai Club

Club History

The club was founded in 1993. Originally there was a single monthly meeting (in Sutton-in-Ashfield), this was soon increased at the request of the members to two meetings a month.

Many more formal clubs depend on demonstrations, talks and slideshows with occasional workshops. At Ashfield the emphasis is very much towards the informal and "hands on". Members regularly bring their own own material to meetings. The club caters for a wide range of experience in bonsai and welcomes new members. Advice is available from the more seasoned and creative members and we try to foster a relaxed, "family feel" with everyone having a say in the clubs affairs. Each year we invite one or two speakers of international fame to present to us, and we occasionally organise weekend workshops with well known bonsai personalties. Presently our meetings are held in the comfortable and spacious church hall at South Normanton and new members are always welcome.

In 2019 the club members will continue to exhibit at major exhibitions both at home and abroad, with trees enterred for the Swindon Winter Image show in February (where the club has also been invited to present a display stand), and at the Bonsai Expo in April.

Members will also be attending the Trophy Exhibition in Belgium in February, the Doncaster show in March and other shows throughout the year

Monday, 14 October 2019

GREAT TREES AT THE CLUB SHOW

Ramons shohin display taking best small tree

Pittys lovely Mugo taking best chuhin and best in show. in a JP pot of course!

My Trident known as K2, took best large tree. also in a JP pot. table by Doug Mudd.

not bad trees for a club show in a local church hall!

Monday, 16 September 2019

HARROGATE FLOWER SHOW

sunday found us at the Harrogate autumn RHS show, and a decent Bonsai selection

this home grown OAK picked up best in show

i've never seen one of these houseplants look as much like a tree as this one (sorry cant remember the species) very nice tree

trade stands from North of England Bonsai, they had a great Gyoten (shades of pink) azalea and korean hornbeam at this end of the stand:

and Driftwood Bonsai in Doncaster:

nice larch at this end, but the white pine in the centre didnt look very happy

all in all a decent show and Bonsai well represented.

Thursday, 12 September 2019

GREENWOOD BONSAI BASH - SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL DEALER

quick trip up to the twice yearly Bonsai Bash last sunday found Corin in good form reworking a lovely white pine over rock.

Excellent bacon sandwiches and cake by the lovely Lady Corin and a good scout through the benches full of stock, I think half a dozen of us popped up over the free two day event and spent some pleasant hours. Nice One Corin, thanks.

Wednesday, 26 June 2019

NATIONAL BONSAI COLLECTION AT BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS

Doddsy playing hide and seek (again)

nice deshojo, lovely glazed pot. possible japanese?

cracking large azalea

nice hawthorn. apparently there is some controversy about the oversize walsall? pot its been put in to improve its health, thats a no brainer, tree health comes first!

CLUB OUTING TO SOUTH STAFFS SHOW AT BIRMINGHAM BOT. GARDENS

cheeky trip to BBG, by MR, CHD and RH. We managed a full english in the Harvester at Bassets Pole on the way. There was a wide variety of trees on show, lots of nice starter trees. we picked these as likely winners.

SPONTANEOUS AZALEA SHOW

it seemed about the right time to call a spontaneous azalea show, however not many takers:

my Gyo Ten (shades of pink") with a nice little accent, walsall pot, table by Tony Hardwick. in truth still many flowers to come, it peaked 2 weeks later, no green leaves to be seen amid the flowers.

chris's cute azalea, varity tba, repotted this spring, it took some hacking to get into the hard set root ball, but all looks ok now

paul warders lovely azalea, variety tba. pot is a clika or similar. at the following meeting Paul cut the tree back hard.