Programme for 2012

Date   What Description Tree of the Month
Wed 11th January   Creating a Bonsai Talk Everyone gives their ideas on what a bonsai speaker should cover.
Wed  8th February   Evergreen Winter Show Bring along an evergreen tree, (and accent plant etc. if you´d like) prepared for an internal club show.
We will all have a secret ballot on which one "steals the show"
Wed 14th March * Terry Demonstration on two or three trees of different species, starting with them as "raw material" and demonstrating how they can be turned into "bonsai".
Wed 11th April * John Trott Workshop on an alternative way to do a group planting for display on a suiban.
Wed  9th May   Style a tree competition We divide those present into teams of three or four (depending on how many attend) and give each team a shrub of nursery stock. In the course of the evening they have to turn it into a bonsai and the winning team gets a small prize
Wed 13th June   Workshop  
Wed 11th July * Collette Harrison Refinement of English native species (e.g. Hawthorn). Native English species
Wed  8th August   Summer Show Bring along a tree, (and accent plant etc. if you´d like) prepared for an internal club show.
We will all have a secret ballot on which one "steals the show"

We will also hold an auction of trees, pots, books etc.
Sun 19th August
provisional,
maybe 12th
  Annual BBQ Members´ families only BBQ held at Robin and Eve´s House in Caversham starting at 1230
Wed 12th September * Terry Adams How to prepare trees for winter
Wed 10th October   Workshop   Acers, Larches and any other trees showing Autumn colour
Wed 14th November * Lee Verhorevoort Maintenance and pruning of pines that can be done in November Pines
Wed 12th December   AGM & Eats & Auction AGM followed by eats and drinks followed by an auction of trees, pots, books etc.

* = charge for outside speaker. (£3 for Berkshire Bonsai Society members, £5 for visitors)