Images of the trees we had at the Heathrow show 23/10/ 16. An excellent club based show that is growing year on years, over 200 trees to be viewed by almost 500 visitors, with many traders selling goodies. congratulations to all involved in organising this great event. Larch and Japanese Maple. […]
South Staffs Bonsai Society Exhibit at Gardeners World Live, June 2016 Congratulations to the South Staffs team led by Mark Bentley who designed and assembled the bonsai display for this years’ Gardeners’ World Live, held this week at the National Exhibition Centre. This was the second occasion that the Society had put on a display […]
South Staffs Bonsai Society Annual Show: 24th April 2016 Once again, the Birmingham Botanical Gardens was the venue for the South Staffs Bonsai Society Annual Show. This year, the Society was delighted to welcome, as participants, members of the Stourbridge Bonsai Society. Both societies put on impressive displays. Also invited were Mark and Ming Moreland […]
The exhibition hall allowed for 36 displays of Mame, Shohin, Chuhin/Kifu, together with displays from two leading bonsai potters. The standard of the displays achieved in the exhibition was much higher than at previous shohin shows. There were significantly more mame exhibits than previously shows, emphasising the growth in popularity of the smaller trees. […]
Grafting techniques for Bonsai In Japanese: “Tsugiki” – in grafting you “meld” a stump (the root system and a small portion of the trunk) and a graft (the upper portion of the trunk, including branches) together. This technique is often used to combine strengths of two different plants together in one new plant. For Bonsai, […]