Monthly Meetings
All meeting will be held on the usual dates (forth monday of the month) at:
The Kew Masonic Centre
31-33 Strathalbyn Street,
East Kew
New members are more than welcome. See you there at 8pm!
HIROTOSHI SAITO WILL BE IN MELBOURNE FROM JUNE 26th TO JULY 8th 2010 SO NOW IS THE TIME TO SELECT MATERIAL FOR WORKSHOPS.
PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON.
The first meeting of the new year kicked off with a Australian native theme. Quentin worked on a old, medium sized kunzea and over the course of the demonstration managed to find it a new home in a beautiful piece of Mallee root. All in all it was an informative night on natives and all members benefited from Quentins vast knowledge. Pictures below.
An eager crowds watches the informative demonstration.
Quentin wires one of his fine native bonsai.
The kunzea's rootball is worked into submission with the help of Steve.
The Kunzea in its new home. A perfect match.
Even the display had a great representation of native bonsai.
This years show was a great success! We had a large number of both members and general public through the doors to admire the high quality of display trees and make purchases from the vast range of stock, pots, books, stands and tools.
A huge thank you to all the members that helped out over the weekend!
Below are a few pictures.
Thanks to every one who came along, I hope got as much enjoyment from it as we did.
This month saw a large crowd watch the transformation of an old cedar and learnt about the ways to grow and propagate Jade.
The cedar was wired and bent into shape to form a graceful bunjin styled tree. Joe and John worked on the tree under Quentins instruction while he also talked about Jades.
Some of the Jades on Display.
The cedar before the work.
A crowd watches the demonstration
The finished tree.
Here are a couple of the display trees. It is great that every meeting the quality of the display trees gets better and better.
All in all it made for an informative night with much information provided to the hall of keen members.
A packed meeting hall was treated to a demonstration by Mr. Zhi Ping Song. He not only brought with him some new techniques but also a beautifully styled spruce. His demonstration was very interesting for all those in attendance whom gained an incite into Chinese bonsai and a couple of new techniques.
Mr. Zhi Ping Song
The very full hall
A very well styled spruce Mr. Song had styled earlier.
The demonstration tree.
Mr. Song had purposefully chosen poor material to demonstrate ways in which to improve everyday trees. Some of which were splitting branches to increase bend-ability and also twisting trunks to move branches into more desirable locations.
Not only was the demo excellent but there was a very high level of display trees on display from some of our members. Photos below.
Tonights meeting saw Don WIre and style a very old Black pine with some interesting history! This tree had been slowly grown over many years and had branch, by branch made the change from informal upright to Bunjin. Tonight Don gave us a glimpse into the trees bright future
The tree is wired from top to toe!
Then each branch was moved into possition
And finally we arrived at this graceful bonsai. This tree has a quite a bit of growing to go but it was very obvious that its future was a bright one.
Some of the trees from the ever improving display bench.
Tonights meeting was another very successful workshop with many trees brought in for discussion and styling. These nights work well because of all the willing helpers, so a big thanks to all involved.
Above is a sample of the excellent trees on display.
