Bonsai By The Harbour - Demo's, trees and people

[Steven]

Well here we are at BBTH and what a venue! Harbour views, nice big room, ample parking and heaps of bonsai going on
The following pictures have been taken by Leigh, Lynette or Ken - Thanks guys!

There's about 60 or so delegates here and the organising committee from the Bonsai Federation of Australia have done a great job getting everything ready for us. Lots of familiar faces and lots of AusBonsai friends. Leigh, Ken (KCPoole), Ric, Brenda, Jan (Corymbia) Chris (Hartos), Lynette, Kenn, Leonarda, Greg (Watto) just to name a few.

The first demonstrator was Khanh Linh assisted by his student (and next door neighbour)Steve Crilley. Linh is creating a landscape with a composition of rocks and a couple of established Juniper - one semi cascade and one informal upright.
Unlike most landscapes, the tree's are planted directly onto the rocks and held in place with wire. He then positioned the roots along the crevices then covered them with his home made muck. Linh's muck consists of;
30% Clay - Organic from a creeck bed etc
30% Sand - River sand sieved to 1 to 2mm.
30% Peat moss - crushed and broken up a bit
10% Organic potting mix - aged and sieved to 2 to 4mm.
Mixed with water to a sticky consistency.

Linhs 2 junipers before - pic by Lynette.JPG

Linh with a bare rooted Juni.jpg

Linh at work with Steve observing.jpg

Trees in position ready for moss.jpg

More to come as I get a chance...
Regards,
Steven

[bodhidharma]

Whoa..that is nice work. Thanks for sharing Steven.

[Bretts]

Wish I was there!
Thanks for the pics and update Steven. I look forward to the rest.

[Amanda]

Wish I could've made it.

[Amanda]

Bump for the pics of Leighs stock? Anyone grab a strawberry bush??

[Chris H]

Im sure Steve will ad more photos later.
The day was a ripper with great Demos from Barry Reeve who showed his cut and rejoin technique, Chris Allnut who showed some maple grafts and how it creates creat trunk girth, Shane Marmara worked for most of the day on his Juniper with great results, (that will be a great tree in a couple of years)
The demonstration by Khan Linh was the highlight for me, when he "plonked" the first tree ontop of the tall rock more than a few in the audience were thinking, hadnt thought of doing that.

What a great venue and a really great bunch of people.

[Handy Mick]

Sounds like a great start to the week end, thank for the update

[kcpoole]

Great day and I will post some photo soon when I resize them
Leigh did some critiques in the late arvo too
Met some more people from here in real life too which is always nice

Steven was handing out some hat pins for those member here too which is nice

Hope thos going tomorow enjoy themselves as much as I did

Ken

[Jamie]

those that have gotten to go are all lucky buggers!!! i would love to get to things like this! i always love seeing the pics though! interesting composition that was made with the junipers!

look forward to the rest when you have time

Jamie

[Andrew Ward]

I knew that Llinh's Keynote Demo would be wonderful.

Having been fortunate enough to visit Llinh, I am aware of his abilities and beautiful nature, with a desire to share his knowledge and art.

Thanks Steve for sharing some photos. Ken, we look forward to seeing more.

Bonsai on the River Murray has been a lot of fun today. Really about good friendships, Farmers Market, trip around Inland Botanic Gardens, wine tasting and succulent (for soes) shopping and viewing. Lots of discussion and philosophizing. Mass and Space ... Tomorrow we get into the hands on experience of playing with little trees!!!

Will aim for 2011 to have the crew from Mildura and Adelaide on the harbour once more.

[kcpoole]

More Photos of Linh's demo

[kcpoole]

Leigh and Noel did a tag team Critique session that was fun
a Visitor brings along a tree, and they bot did a Critique on it

[Chris H]

As a side note.
That Linh's arrangement was so heavy it took three people to move it and all three had dents in their hands at the end.
The funniest bit was watching them "smile" as they were asked to stop and stand still for the photo.

[kcpoole]

Shane ( the president of the Central Coast Club), Did a great Demo on a big Shimpaku too

Took him most of the day to complete it too and I will love to see this in another year or 2

[Andrew Ward]

Thanks Ken for sharing with us more of Llinh's creation.