AusBonsai

Its that timeout year again. Always the last weekend of the October school holidays!

I'm so proud of our members ... they have been working behind the scenes for quite some time to pul all the element s necessary for an outstanding show together.

A full day was put in by many today to set up The Goodwood Community Centre (Rosa Street, GOODWOOD). The Exhibition is looking very fine. Every year the standard keeps on getting better and better. Perhaps this is also a reflection of our members' higher participation in national and international bonsai programs?

We have a vast array of very top quality plants for sale, many not ordinarily available through nurseries and garden centres.

We also have Spirit of Bonsai at our Sales Area with a large quantity of priced and big size bonsai pots ... the nursery comes to our Exhibition!!!

Hope to see many over the weekend, we even have a 'Childrens Potting Corner' where young ones can buy a tree for a cold coin donation to SIDS, buy an inexpensive pot, and pot up their tree into a bonsai pot. Hopefully these wil be our bonsaists of the future?

Just $3 admission, I'm looking forward to seeing many over the next couple of days.

An amazing opening day. The hall was positively jumping with people throughout the day.

The Children's Table has been a huge success, with money raised for SIDS. God coin donation fr a small tree and purchase or a small $3 pot. Thank you to Brunnings for supplying Premium Potting Mix. thanks to members for donating trees and also some pots.

Demonstrations of bonsai were well received at 10.30am, 12md and 2.45pm. Ikebana was nice again sensational at 2.00pm. Same times for Sunday.

Huge support from all our members.

Thank you also to businesses that supplied raffle prizes generously:
Spirit of Bonsai
Bonsai Mujo
Bonsai Tree Gardens
Neutrog
Brunnings
Cobb and Co Horticultural Suppliers
Walkerville Chinese Restaurant.

Good luck to the people who have bought raffle tickets ... ... will be drawn and announced on Sunday at 3.30pm. Winners will be notified and may collect f at the hall on Sunday, otherwise at our Tuesday evening Workshop on on 15 October!

Checkout YouTube ad our Facebook page for some video footage ... later Sunday!

Hope to see many more on Sunday ... 10am start and close at 4pm ... then the flurry to clear thechall and return trees and items to their homes begins in earnest.

What a weekend!

An incredible diversity of people attending our show. We had a number of new members join at our sow also.

A huge thank you to all our volunteers ... without their help the weekend could not have been such a huge success!


Now time to rest .. before Tuesday evenings workshop program, most likely record workshop numbers for our club!

You might like to see a demonstration of Ikebana that was a part of our program this weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vde1oj7 ... ata_player

Enjoy!!!

Hi Andrew

Any Pictures for the poor "Interstaters"

Cheers, Rudi