Ashfield Bonsai Club annual show

My local club held it's annual show last night.

I've put a few of the pictures here for your enjoyment (hopefully), there are more on our clubs blogsite if you're interested (link to the blog is shown below the pictures)

Mikes juniper rigida


Teds juniper, winner of the shohin category


Johns potentilla


Johns larch, winner of the chuhin category


Mikes amur maple


Petes common juniper


Johns maple clump


The winning trees from the 3 categories, in the centre is Mike Roses fantastic scots pine which won Best in Show

Hi John
Very nice trees. I think they are all very good. How big is Juniperus communis?
Gretings Pavel

Hi Pavel, thanks very much, I'll pass on your comments at our next meeting.

From memory the Common Juniper is approximately 600mm above the top of the pot.

Regards

John

Lovely trees John.

Looks like you're getting the hang of netaku now Your latest one looks very good with your potentilla

Looks like a nice show! I really like that larch, and the color on the amur maple is excellent (too bad the background doesn't show it off better).

Chris

Mark, Chris, many thanks for your comments.

Chris the larch is John Pitts, the movement and bark texture are fantastic. There are development pictures on Johns website http://www.johnpittbonsaiceramics.co.uk/blog/?paged=4
The colours on Mike Rose's amur maple were much brighter/sharper than the "tweaked" picture shows, the reds and yellows were lovely, as you say the hastily erected hardboard backdrop don't do them justice
Thanks again gents.

Regards

John

Lovely trees. I like an amur maple most.
Thanks for your post
Quí

Great trees John Pass My best wishes to every one

Regards Chris

Some great trees John. Thanks for posting.

Hi John,

Nice trees from your club, well done to all of you.

I too like the Common Juniper and I notice another nice one on your club blog - are these collected?

Cheers

Paul

Proton, Chris, Will, Paul

Thanks from all our members, we're glad that you've enjoyed our trees.

Paul, the common juniper came via John Pitt, I know it's a yamadori that he took as part of an exchange, but I'm not sure which country it was collected from, maybe Johnny Boy will chip in if he's reading.
Pete Tombs the current owner has improved the tree greatly over the last 18 months with the help of Peter Warren.

Regards

John

THANK YOU