AusBonsai

It’s on again with some great presenters, some from interstate. You will be able to do workshops with Tony Bebb and Sean Hood or follow the demonstrations or catch up with old bonsai friends. We have a website now so go and find out all the details of BBTH 2025 and registrations made easy at

www.bonsaifederationofaustralia.com

I'm one of the interstate demonstrators.
One session showing the Shibui ROR method. The other demo will be field growing - my methods and some of the pitfalls I've found over the years.
We'll also have Shibui Bonsai stock for sale that weekend.
Looking forward to catching up with NSW bonsai friends.
If anyone up there wants to purchase Shibui Bonsai stock without the delivery cost, please let me know what to bring.

It looks like there is going to be a good roll up this coming weekend at the Shore boatshed with people coming from as far away as Newcastle, port Macquarie and Canberra. There is still slots for workshops on the Sunday. Lynette Smith, Grant Bowie, Janet Selby and Denise Edgerton will be selling pots and Megumi her fig book. There will be NO silent auction but Shibui will be selling trident maples and other plants inter alia.

I'll be loading up the ute with trees and bonsai stands for sale and plenty of stuff to illustrate my 2 demos -

• Developing Root over Rock bonsai on Saturday afternoon

and

• Shibui methods for field growing/ fast growing trunks for better bonsai on Sunday.

Look forward to catching up with everyone over the weekend.

Picked this Trident up from Neil today.
Money well spent.

Great to hear you are happy with the tree. That's 5 or 6 years of growth as well as a modicum of experience you've purchased.
Sorry to have missed you when you were there today. Hope we can catch up another time.

I’ll continue to develop it and hopefully do it justice.

I had my wife and 2 kids with me, they were pushing me out the door so I couldn’t stick around.

I have told the miss’s I want to road trip to your nursery.
Hopefully will meet sometime in the next 12 months.
Looks like about 6 hrs from Sydney. Maybe I can ditch the kids at the grandparents.

Couple of pics of demo's over the weekend:

The carving on the olive was done by the talented Sean Hood using about 5 different tools on the Sunday.