In preparation for our annual show the members looked at different methods for judging trees. This included a practical session. Our 30th Birthday was celebrated with a great show at Hamilton Gardens. There were over 100 trees on display from very small..... ..to this very large [...]
Once again we got dirty with clay. This time Sandra bought along two batches of clay, one slightly drier than the other. Members could make their own free-form pots or follow instructions on how to make a slab pot as seen at the recent BCI Convention in Australia. Everyone got stuck in and we [...]
The August meeting was a follow up workshop from the weekend with Dianne and Noel. Trees that had been worked on over the weekend were brought in and discussed with everyone before finishing touches were added.
Our normal Sunday afternoon meeting was a Root-over-rock workshop with Jeff giving a talk on how to create a Root-over rock planting and how to avoid some of the pitfalls. This was followed by several members having a go at creating one. The weekend of July 26th and 27th saw our annual Winter Weekend workshop. [...]
Sunday afternoon was a general workshop with plenty of winter pruning and repotting.
Hamilton members were very active in the setup and running of the successful NZBA Convention in Cambridge over the weekend of May 2nd to 5th. A great event with Tony Bebb from Australia making a great impression. Congratulations to all those club members who won awards over the weekend. Our normal Sunday afternoon session was [...]
Sandra gave an illustrated talk on Air Layering and was followed by Gordon who talked about using cuttings and seeds to increase your collection. April also saw out annual field trip. This time we visited Marshal and Gordon before going up into the hills behind Thames to visit Peppertree nursery and go looking for rocks. [...]
Les gave a talk on designing trees which do not fit into the classical 5 styles. He illustrated his talk with a number of trees which had been brought in by members.
The first meeting of the year saw Les run through the highlights of the programme followed by an interesting talk on Chinese Elms by Peter Scammell. Several new members turned up with their trees and were given help on the design and care of their trees.
Once again we welcomed Nobu to run a weekend workshop in Pirongia. Our trees are definitely showing improvements in ramification and starting to 'tell their own story' due to Nobu's teachings. The weather put a slight dampener on the BBQ on the Saturday evening but that didn't stop the talking. The December meeting was [...]
