Les with the help of several able assistants gave a talk on the different materials used of landscape trays. He went through in detail on how to make a large tray from fibreglass. This provoked a lot of thought and mutterings on who was going to have a go at making some. On display [...]
A quite night in April with only 10 members turning up to get messy with some clay and have ago at making some pots. Sandra brought along the clay, tools, boards and newspaper and gave a demonstration on several techniques for making small pots. Then it was over to us to use our imagination. [...]
Despite it being heralded as a Branch Refinement Techniques talk all the club knew it meant wiring! Sandra gave a talk on the finer points of how to use fine wiring to achieve good branch placement and ramification on our trees. This was followed by a practical with several trees being brought in by the [...]
For the first meeting of the year Sandra gave a talk on summer pruning - very apt as we all have shaggy maples which need a prune. This was followed by Les and Gordon talking about their summer mishaps and successes. On the 17th Sandra also held a well attended workshop and afternoon tea at [...]
Once again we welcomed Nobu for our usual summer weekend workshops. As usual there was plenty of note taking as Nobu gave his short talk before getting onto the trees. A very good weekend with a good variety of trees being discussed. The December meeting was a fun evening with several competitions - including [...]
It was all change at the AGM with a new President (Sandra Quintal), new Vice President (Les Simpson) and new Secretary (Gordon Bowers), as the existing post holders had stepped down after a number of years. During the AGM the club presented Life Membership awards to Sandra Quintal and Jeff Richards in recognition of their [...]
The evening meeting saw the return of the trees from the June Drawing Workshop. Some of the trees had undergone a complete transformation whilst others were only partly there as the changes required are too much for one session. Typical of the transformation is this pine. October also saw [...]
Jeff gave a humorous and interesting talk on Suiseki. In his own inimitable was Jeff not only went through the history and meaning of Suiseki but he also gave us the background to a number of his own stones, where they were collected from and how he had chosen how to display them. There were [...]
The August meeting saw us get dirty with a repotting workshop.
A great two day workshop with Lee Wilson from Australia.
