Wirral Bonsai Members Annual Show 2011

Hi Everyone

W-B-S had its Annual Members Bonsai Show at the Week-end and was Judge by Mr Steve Tolley and we are more than PROUD TO SAY that Mr Tolley was delighted and Impressed with on Display for him to Judge

The Result and The Winners were

Best Shohin == no 26 Chinese Juniper Owner == Ian W.






Best Chuhin == No 2 English Yew (Taxus Baccata ) Owner == Iain Q.



Best BroadLeaf ==No 7 Escallonia Owner ==Ian W.






Best Bonsai Tree on Show == No 4 Juniper (Kishu) Owner == Lee K.




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Chairman's Award == No 5 Japanese Maple == Dave Y.




Chairman's Certificate of Merit To



Sean D. == No 3 Maple (Acer Palmatum Deshojo)



Bill G. == No 19 Hinoki Cypress



More to Follow hope you enjoy my effort from Wirral Bonsai Society

The usual high standard and attention to detail from the Wolverines. Well done. This needs moving up

Congrats to all.
Looks like it was a excelent show!
Mitch

Some lovely trees there, hope we see you all from the WBC down at the Swindon 'Winter Image' show next year .........again

Paul

Back again with the Rest of the Results from Wirral bonsai Society Show 2011



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Chairman's Certificate of Merit To

Sean D. == No 16 Crab Apple

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Voted Best Tree By the Public and Awarded The Dave Mitchell Trophy By Dave Mitchell Family

Sean D. == No 3 Maple ( Acer Palmatum Deshojo)



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Voted Best Tree By the Public and Awarded The Dave Mitchell Trophy By Dave Mitchell Family



Sean D. == No 3 Maple ( Acer Palmatum Deshojo)



Many Many thanks to Mr Tolley and Friends for taking time to visit and Judge our Bonsai Trees



And finally some of our W-B-S member's plus OUR Favourite Guest





Hope you All Enjoyed our images of our show and that I managed to portrait our Bonsai Trees ok as its my First attempt And thank-you from Me a LARGE thank-you To ALL the W-B-S Members for allowing me to take images of your Wonderful Trees and I hope I did your Trees Justice

So From me to you ALL Take care always look after each other but most of all look after your Bonsai Trees after all they ARE Alive and Need our help to survive

Jim thelad

Sad that I couldn't make it this year, but your photojournalism helps! Excellent show and very well photographed. You've obviously taken it seriously and the dedication shows. Keep it up, Wirral and Jim.

Fantastic tree and I would not expect anything less!

Regards and respect Chris

Very nice show, terrific trees.
Thanks for sharing
Xuan

CONGRATS!!! nice show

Great trees,presentation and photography,hope to see you all at Swindon in Febuary 2012
Bob

Hi Jim, Congratulations Ian and Lee... and all the winners. Once again The Wirral have excelled, a great show and some fantastic individual trees. You guys just keep going from strength to strength.

cheers jim for putting these up

Congratulations to the organizers of this fantastic show and to all the winners!!

Best wishes
ka pabling

Enjoyed my visit again to the show... But tree 6 the Scots Pine won my vote!!
Cheers for a great show
Bryan

Hi All

Many thanks for all you pleasing comments and am sure Lee K. was a very very happy gentleman and ALL the Personnel whose Trees were selected by Mt Tolley as Winner plus the Chairman's Verdict for Certificate of Merit's also I will know that ALL Members of our society (W-B-S ) will be over the moon for all the hard work and preparation and the members whose trees were chosen and shown on display will reguard this a worthwhile and a job well done thank-you to everyone who attended our show and to all of you for leaving you comments

For me ALL the Bonsai Trees were WINNERS and here are the rest of the Beautiful Trees that I had the privilege of Photographing

No 1 === Box (Buxus)




No 6 === Scots Pine ( Pinus Sylvestris)

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No 8 === Scots Pine ( Pinus Sylvestris)



No 9 === Box (Buxus)



No 10 === Juniper (Sargentii)



No II === Maple ( Acer Palmatum)



No 12 === Juniper (Meyeri )



No 14 === Maple ( Acer Palmatum)



No 15 === Honeysuckle ( Lonicera)



No 17 === Juniper (Chinese)



No 18 === Maple (Acer Palmatum)




That's it for now sorry for the Delay and I apologies for any mistakes in the Spelling or Naming of Trees but I sure you all know more about Bonsai than I do

Many thanks for viewing our trees and hopefully I will be return with the Shohin Trees that were on display

Take care look after yourself and each other plus ALL your Bonsai Trees


Jim thelad

Looks like a great show! Thanks for sharing!

Superb trees. Well done to all the members of the Wirral Club for putting on this display. I'd love to come along to one of your clubnights if this is the quality of trees you work with.

Nice photos Jim, looks like you're mastering the new camera. It must be a pleasure to have such nice trees to photograph.

Paul

Hi All

Now it's Shohin Time from W-B-S Members Annual Show. First of all I am really sorry for not putting the Names of the Little Trees and their Owners on Display So I will list the names of the Shohin Trees and you can ALL have some FUN saying what Tree belongs to what Number then pick YOUR TOP 2 but DON'T ask Me if your selection is correct as I cannot tell North from South or East from West Just have Fun Please Thanks

The Trees ON DISPLAY are as Follows in NO PARTICULAR ORDER

Hinoki Cypress == Honeysuckle (Lonicera Nitida) == Potentilla == Cotoneaster ==
San-Jose Juniper == Chinese Elm == Pyracantha == Juniper (Itoi-gawa) Chinese Juniper ==
Juniper (Blaauws) == Black Pine (Pinus Thunbergii )

I apologize for any miss-spelling or NOT named a Tree correctly

So just have FUN any Questions about Your Tree Selection ask Any Moderator or Senior Members Iain W == Dave Y == Lee K == Andy H == Doug M == Tony F == Bill G From W-B-S

DO YOU KNOW YOUR SHOHIN'S TREES



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That's the first few for now hope you enjoy them

Take care and look after each other and ALL of your Bonsai Trees

Jim thelad

more images to test your Knowledge on these Wonderful Little Shohin Trees

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That's it for now some more to follow soon

Take care look after each other and most of All look after your Bonsai Trees as they all need our help to Survive

Jim thelad

Back for the Last time with the Shohin collection

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And Last My Little Favorites are these 2 Little Ones Technically Not a Bonsai Tree But they did help to Entice the Public to Doug M 's Display

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That is it until next year From WIRRAL BONSAI SOCIETY and we ALL like to express our Largest Thank-you ever, for allowing our Society to display our Trees on the IBC Forum

All is left for me to say is to Thank The 3 Wise-men of The Bonsai World and Culture (Well at least 2). Mr Steve Tolly Bonsai Four Dimensional Art Supremo, our Guest Judge who has so much Talent it would take me for-ever to write about his knowledge, and still not complete everything about him, his achievements his outlook for the future of Bonsai Culture in Britain and in Europe or even World Wide plus his other interest and his companions

Mr Ian Stewardson (A Gentle Giant (well he is Taller than Me) who is the Proud Owner of A Bonsai Life Achievement Award of the FOBS (Federation Of British Bonsai) and
Mr David Jackson a Soft Spoken Gentleman who has a Extremely keen interest in Bonsai culture and a Senior instructor at Invoshin School of Martial arts and also gracing our event was Mr and Mrs Malcolm Hughes a former President

And of-course our very own most Welcomed Friend Les S.and so sorry that a few other prominent Bonsai Personnel could not make it this time

From ALL OF US AT W-B-S a Large Thank-you to each and everyone of you who took time to visit us and look at our images here on Internet Bonsai Club

Take care look after each other and also your Bonsai Trees as they all need help to live and survive

Jim thelad

Thanks Jim for posting all the trees from this excellent Show. You guys really put on a corker and I will have to get there one day soon!!
Congrats to all my Wirral Buddies and I look forward to catching up with you soon,

Regards,
Simon

PS
I see that the MBS Spy managed to creep in. Lets hope he manage to collect lots of valuable intelligence for our Show next year.
If not it could be curtains

Hi Everyone

I have been asked if Wirral had NO Accents Plants if so what happened to them

I am to blame for that. So sorry so here are the Little Accent Pants and a few other items that can compliment the Display just hope I don't get into trouble for showing them

No 1 === I believe this one belongs to Bill G



No 2 === Most Accent plants belong to Andy H.



No 3 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 4 === Could Belong to Dave Y's



No 5 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 6 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 7 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H




No 8 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 9 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 10 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 11 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H




No 12 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 14 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 15 === Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 16 Not too sure of the Owner Could Belong to Andy H



No 17 === Doug M's Mushroom Farm.JPG



No 18 === Mushroom 's Belong To Dave Y



No 19 === Finally W-B-S High Tech Show Security ( M-B-S + Beware We Are ALL Watching You)



Once again so Sorry for not including the Accent plants with the Bonsai Trees but I hope this is ok to send them now

Take care look after each other and All Your Bonsai Trees and Accents plants

On behalf of Wirral Bonsai Society thank-you for viewing our images from our Annual Members Show

Thanks for posting all these superb pics.

Once again, the Wirral posse show just what a talented bunch they truly are. I was gutted that I couldn't make it (again) this year (illness this time). next year though.....