After days and days of wind and heavy rain the weekend of our annual workshops with Nobu saw the sun shining on us. With a number of our newer members turning up for the first time on the Saturday, Nobu made sure he included them in the general discussions and expanded on his comments on [...]

The meeting started with the second part about Pines, Les sent some time discussing various pruning techniques, and when to prune the different species of Pine. Les then asked people to come up and help prune his huge Radiata for him! Aaron gave a brief follow up from the Pines Part 1 meeting in August [...]

Well – what a fabulous day we had! Will arrived with Martin who brought all three of his dremels along (thank goodness). Everyone was very keen to learn about carving but not knowing quite what to expect we all turned up with two or three trees in tow. Will took one look at all the [...]

Setup on Friday allowed us a new layout as the Torii gate is undergoing a refresh in readiness for the convention next year. New backing boards and supports also allowed more flexibility as we now have backing boards for Shohin displays. Between us we managed to put 160 trees of all sizes on display in [...]

A great meeting with Brent Barber from WINTEC today. Brent gave a very informative discussion and demo about grafting techniques and why they are used. I'm sure there well be plenty of members wanting to give grafting a try in the coming months.

The September club meeting focused on a workshop for the Totora Formal upright project. Everyone taking part in the project were asked to bring their Totara along to report, wire and prune. There are some great looking trees starting to take shape. Sandra also [...]

Great afternoon learning about pines. Information on types and styles from Peter and Les, with a wide range of species on the main table. Characteristics of each species of Pine were covered, from looking at needle colour, number and shape to the type of buds to help understand how to tell each species apart. After [...]

Here we go again! This year we have started a second series of workshops with our favourite artist from across the ditch. The first three year programme proved to be very successful and using the old adage “If it isn’t broken—don’t fix it” it was decide we would run a second three year programme. Tony [...]

The July club meeting featured Tony Bebb who was visiting the Hamilton Bonsai Club. During the visit Tony did a Shohin Workshop & Critique, two day weekend workshop as well as working on private collections. The monthly meeting was held at the clubs new venue which is one of the rooms associated with the St [...]

This featured Tony Bebb who was visiting the Hamilton Bonsai Club. It was held at the Cambridge Society of Arts Studio Rooms from 2 to 5:30pm on Saturday 7 July. At the conclusion of the session several who had attended had dinner together in a nearby Thai Restaurant. This was a good time of the [...]