Club Meeting – Pumice & Landscaping
Wintec Building at Hamilton Gardens Rose Garden Carpark, HamiltonTopic: Pumice & Landscaping Melody will talk about PUMICE as a material and how you can use it in relation to bonsai. She will show examples and demonstrate what can be done. Then it is up to you to unleash your inner genius. WHAT TO BRING Your own piece of pumice if you have one. [...]
Club Meeting – Kathy Steyn Demo
Wintec Building at Hamilton Gardens Rose Garden Carpark, HamiltonTopic: Kathy Steyn will give a carving demonstration Kathy Steyn from South Africa will feature at this meeting She will give a talk and this will be followed by a carving demonstration. Last year she did some carving. Only two trees were brought to the meeting last year and she did some very good work [...]
Club Meeting – Maples Workshop
Wintec Building at Hamilton Gardens Rose Garden Carpark, HamiltonTopic: Maples Workshop This month we feature MAPLES Bring along your trees with Autumn Colour to Show & Tell. We will view any non maples first and save the maples for after our information. This will give you time to reflect. Marshall will be giving a picture gallery of inspiration and has prepared hand outs. [...]
Club Meeting – Club AGM + Turntables & Bonsai Tools
Wintec Building at Hamilton Gardens Rose Garden Carpark, HamiltonTopic: Club AGM + Turntables and Bonsai Tools We will commence with the AGM for the Hamilton Bonsai Club. This will be followed by our normal monthly meeting which features Bonsai Tools and will be led by Marshall and Melody. Marshall requested the following be sent out in preparation for the meeting: The topic for [...]
Club Meeting – Guest Speaker Tony Bebb
St Francis Church Hall 92 Mansel Ave, Hillcrest, Hamilton, WaikatoTopic: Guest Speaker Tony Bebb Tony Bebb from Australia is our Demonstrator for the afternoon. Please bring along two or three trees for him to critique or that you want suggestions for. This format proved to be very interesting and useful last year! He will discuss as many trees as possible in the time frame, [...]
Club Meeting – Pines – Part 1
St Francis Church Hall 92 Mansel Ave, Hillcrest, Hamilton, WaikatoTopic: Pines - Part 1 Species used in bonsai, suitable styles and propagation Our next Hamilton Club meeting is this coming Sunday, 12 August, 2:PM at the St. Francis Church Hall at 92 Mansel Avenue, Hamilton East. A reminder to please bring your own cup or mug for tea or coffee- your hot drink will [...]
Club Meeting – Formal Upright Workshop
St Francis Church Hall 92 Mansel Ave, Hillcrest, Hamilton, WaikatoTopic: Formal Upright Workshop please bring your Totara along. Have it slightly dry as this time we need to shape and wire the branch structure. This may require you put it in a protected place where the rains can't reach it for a few days! Please bring tools and wire if you have it. If [...]
Club Meeting – Grafting
St Francis Church Hall 92 Mansel Ave, Hillcrest, Hamilton, WaikatoTopic: Grafting More information will be released closer to the date.
Club Meeting – Air-layering
St Francis Church Hall 92 Mansel Ave, Hillcrest, Hamilton, WaikatoTopic: Air-layering Our November meeting is next Sunday the 11th starting at 2:00PM. Held at the St. Francis Church Hall, 92 Mansell Ave., Hillcrest . If for any reason the upper carpark is full, don't forget there is another carpark in front of the Church, just off the Morrinsville road. And don't forget to bring [...]
Club Meeting – Xmas
St Francis Church Hall 92 Mansel Ave, Hillcrest, Hamilton, WaikatoTopic: Pines Part 2 and Xmas fun This meeting is the second installment on Pines. Aaron will have a brief update on starting pines from seed. (I know a few questions have arisen from Part One). Les will do a talk and demo on pruning. Keeping with the Subject, if you have a pine in [...]