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28 Feb, 2011

Club Activity – February 2011

2017-02-24T17:38:04+13:00February 28th, 2011|Club Activities|0 Comments

For our first meeting of the year we started with a talk by several members on their Summer Disasters - things that had gone wrong with trees over the holiday season, including trees drying out, not liking a change of position and just dying. This was followed by a new regular feature - a critique [...]

28 Dec, 2010

Club Activity – December 2010

2017-02-24T17:36:02+13:00December 28th, 2010|Club Activities|0 Comments

December saw the usual weekend workshop with Nobu. A wide variety of trees were worked on giving Nobu a chance to demonstrate the different pruning techniques for each sepecies. The Wednesday meeting saw our 'Christmas Camel', three teams styling a bonsai from scratch, after 10 minutes the [...]

28 Oct, 2010

Club Activity – October 2010

2017-02-24T17:24:35+13:00October 28th, 2010|Club Activities|0 Comments

The normal meeting was taken up by sorting out last minute convention details. We also had photographers from Chasing Time Productions come in to take pictures of bonsai for their next film. The convention and exhibition were a great success. Over 150 trees on display and the demonstrationsby Robert Steven were fantastic. Our own demonstrators, [...]

28 Jun, 2010

Club Activity – June 2010

2017-02-24T17:12:09+13:00June 28th, 2010|Club Activities|0 Comments

Our guest speaker for the afternoon was Rob Morley-Smith who came over from Tauranga to give a great in-depth talk on plant nutrition. During his talk Rob explained how plants get their nutrition and how we can make sure that our trees can get the best out of the feeding regiemes we use as well [...]

28 May, 2010

Club Activity – May 2010

2017-02-24T17:11:29+13:00May 28th, 2010|Club Activities|0 Comments

At the May meeting Jeff gave a presentation on the history and interpretation of the Literati style. This interesting talk debunked some of the myths and common misconceptions around the style. After Jeff's talk Peter and Jeff gave an impromtu demonstration using 4 Black Pines - two of these were rejected as not being suitable, [...]

28 Apr, 2010

Club Activity – April 2010

2017-02-24T17:11:22+13:00April 28th, 2010|Club Activities|0 Comments

April saw our annual trip north of the Bombays to visit three very different and fascinating collections and a stop off at Bonsai NZ to lighten the wallets a bit. A great trip. At the normal meeting Peter passed on the techniques shown to us by Nobu in December last year on how to prune [...]

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