European Bonsai Congress 2009

Hello, here I leave with you a link to pictures of Bonsai EBA European Congress of ESA in the city of Murcia Lorca 2009

http://www.bonsaime.com/tags/EBA+2009+Lorca

Hi Vetro. do you have photos of the Demos... particularly Kevin Willsons yew?

Hi Tony,

On the Blog of Alberto Baleato Pumar you can find a picture of the yew Kevin styled: http://kingii.blogspot.com/2009/03/lorca.html

Regards from Belgium,
Hans

This is the work of Kevin

This is the most astounding material. I would love to see this potted up.

I saw this tree a few years ago after recently collected, Kev has done a nice job. BTW the tree is HUGE!

Tony I think huge is an understatement for this tree, it is a truly stunning tree in real life.

Hi,

This tree is outstanding, Kevin said that it should have more than 2000 years .

The expo was at a very high level and with a very good organization .

Congratulations to the Italian NT 2009.

One thing that I noticed was the absense of some European top people and the lack of trees from the North of Europe.

You can see some more photos in my Blog http://marioeusebio.blogspot.com/.

Best regards,

Mário Eusébio

the tree is fab,unbelievable,and all credit to the man that styled it a big pat on the back bob hill

Mário Eusébio wrote:Hi,
One thing that I noticed was the absense of some European top people and the lack of trees from the North of Europe.
Mário Eusébio

Hi Mário,

I am aware that the UK group (including me) looked at the logisitics of getting trees to the the event, and attending. This was one of the big events I really wanted to get to this year, I was aware that Kevin was working on this tree... and that the exhibition would be superb. Simply put the £ = € is stopping a lot of people traveling across the water to countries that have the Euro. thats why I love Denmark

Fantastic yamadori yew!!
Kevin did a wonderful job!!

Hi Tony!

You are absolutly right! This dam economy is making things even more difficult!

I drove there by car, 2400 kms +- I spent more or less 150 EUR of gas + Tolls, I think some people could have had a Low cost flight cheaper! Related the trees is not so simple, but whatever, last Year the guys from Portugal had gone to Austria and took the trees in the plane!

Or You could have moved and start to live in Spain

Best regards,

Mario Eusébio

vetro wrote:Hello, here I leave with you a link to pictures of Bonsai EBA European Congress of ESA in the city of Murcia Lorca 2009

http://www.bonsaime.com/tags/EBA+2009+Lorca

Seems to be i missed a great show! - Wonderful trees on display ......

Kevin did a nice job building a triangle canopy over the top of an ancient tree. Yet under the canopy one sees juvenile branches arrayed in a pattern to build the canopy. This zeal to make full canopies with juvenile branches appears to be a definite trend in Europe. It seems the artists are in a rush to build a bonsai. The goal I always thought was to make a tree look old not to make an old tree look young!

Time needs to be factored into the design and not the need to create an instant bonsai. What is going to happen to all those spindly branches that form the canopy? The best bonsai should be trained for long periods to time using wire and the concept of growing into the design. Once the design has set little wire will be needed to keep the design. Therefore the underlying structure to build the design is much more elegant. A 2000 year old tree deserves that much consideration after all, how many more 2000 year old trees are there waiting to be a bonsai (for that matter how many 2000 year old trees are there to be collected.)

Some one will have the photographs of the demonstration of marc noelanders