AusBonsai

Hi All, i like the idea of a combination of benches and posts, i find you can move the posts if needed as your collection grows.

Brett, the tree belongs to a client, who bought the tree last spring from the Bonsai Society of Victoria show. I believe the original grower is Mr Hong Lin, whom the folks from Bonsai Northwest and BSV will know well.

Cheers
MM

Ok, I think we're getting closer! We had our usual group meeting on the weekend and after MUCH discussion we're here....







Makes more sense when you see it in context. This design puts the plinth type stands where they are most visible from the outside and keeps the benches where there are garden beds that block some of the view. We do use it for trees in all stages of training as well as display trees so this gives us space for both. The bench down the middle is over 600mm wide and will take our biggest trees. Space for a water feature down the end which I reckon is a job for stage 2, there's enough to be getting on with in the rest of it!

Thank you very much for all your suggestions, I really do appreciate them. I'll post details of the progress as it happens.

Cheers,

Scott.

I think a lot of the suggestions get a bit 'busy'. The point of the display is to see the bonsai and any stands or tables should not grab you visually. Monkey poles are great but you are talking about a contained area and again, you could be getting too many visual distractions that would take away from the trees. I am more for plain benching that would hold the trees, allow for change of display by not restricting size with a few monkey poles to highlight special trees. With the dynamics of trees I think the KISS principle should apply... keep visual distractions to the minimum so the trees are the ones taking centre stage. I am sure you will work it out pleasingly and it would be good to see photos of the end result.