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.
Part one of a two part drawing workshop. Sketches were produced by members for seven trees. One design was chosen for each tree and the tree will be worked on over the next few month to produce the design chosen.
Melody gave a demonstration on creating a large group with rocks and a group of redwoods collected from the forest in Rotorua a few years ago.
Our guest speaker was Terry Hatch from Joy Plants in Pukekohe. He talked about a variety of natives that he thought would make suitable specimens for bonsai. As well as talking about the plants he also had samples for us to look at (and spend our cash on). April also saw the club have a [...]
Peter gave a talk on soil mixes and what soil does for our trees. Several of the club committee brought along samples of their mixes for comparison. Peter also talked on how we should feed our tress and what nutrients they need.
For the first meeting of the year Sandra gave a talk illustrating the different types of pines we use in bonsai as well as informing us of how to care for them over the year. This was very timely as there is a lot of work to be done on pines over the next couple [...]
