British Shohin Bonsai new website

The British Shohin Association has recently undergone some changes and has been reincarnated as British Shohin Bonsai (BSB)
BSB is an informal appreciation society whose aims are to foster an interest in smaller sizes of bonsai, and to play a lead role in helping bonsai enthusiasts develop the necessary skills to grow and show this category of bonsai.
I've attached a link to the new website below, please pay it a visit I'm sure you'll be pleased you did.

http://britishshohinbonsai.com/ 

There is also a Facebook page with plenty of traffic at the moment, you can click through from the website.

My trees on display at the Bonsai Traders Association event October 2014

I helped put on a small display display for British Shohin Bonsai.
Here are a few pictures of my display and the trees I used.

Black pine with Ilex Serrata
Rosewood cascade stand and Mahogany ne taku by Bespoke Bonsai Stands

Black pine

Ilex Serrata

Ilex Serrata in Dan Barton pot
Ebony display table by Bespoke Bonsai Stands

Fern accent in Suteki pot

Capel Manor Autumn Bonsai show October 2014

The Bonsai group Enfield hosted their Autumn show yesterday.
There were lots of great trees on display of differing sizes and species.
Here are a few pictures from the show.

My Cotoneaster on a lovely root stand

White pine clump

Dan's Spindle

Yew

John Armitage's White pine and Privet shohin display, winner of Best display

Andy Jordan's white pine

John Armitage's shohin display

Pete & Ted's Trident Maple winner of Best in Show

John Armitage's Pyracantha

Ian Cuppleditch's fantastic Ezo Spruce

Pete & Ted's shohin Trident Maple on a lovely Bespoke Bonsai Stands table

John Armitage's white pine on a Bespoke Bonsai Stands table

John Armitage's Itoigawa Juniper

Kokedama display on Mahogany ne taku

Juun Huisman kindly sent me a picture this week of his Kokedama displayed on a ne taku that I made.
Juun won the ne taku in a competition organised by the Belgian Bonsaicafe website.

This picture is of a new display that Juun has entered for the competition this year.

It is a kokedama with cyclamen hederiflorum and Ophiopogon planiscapus Niger.

Thank you for the picture Juun and good luck in the competition.

Slinky burr Elm ji ita's for sale

I managed to get hold of some proper burr elm recently and I've turned out these slinky little ji ita's.
Ideal for displaying your accent plants on, or the bigger boards will also take a shohin tree, or bronze figurines...whatever floats your boat.

Burr Elm ji ita
200mm x 175mm x 6mm
£40 + postage

Burr Elm ji ita
170mm x 150mm x 6mm
£30 + postage

Burr Elm ji ita
125mm x 110mm x 5mm
£20 + postage

Burr Elm ji ita
150mm x 120mm x 6mm
£25 + postage

Burr Elm ji ita
120mm x 105mm x 8mm
£20 + postage

Burr Elm ji ita
170mm x 150mm x 7mm (at widest points)
£20 + postage









E mail me on bespokebonsaistands@hotmail.com if you are interested in buying anything you see on this site

New shohin tables for sale

I've just received some new shohin tables that I commissioned a while ago.
The build quality of these stands is excellent and the woods used, Rosewood and Ebony, are high quality materials demanded by the Japanese market.

A few pictures to whet the appetite of all you shohin junkies out there.......

Ebony shohin table 230mm x 180mm x 50mm

£75 plus postage

Rosewood shohin table 230mm x 180mm x 50mm

£75 plus postage

Ebony shohin table 230mm x 180mm x 35mm

£75 plus postage

Rosewood shohin table 230mm x 180mm x 35mm

£75 plus postage

Ebony shohin table 230mm x 180mm x 30mm

£70 plus postage

Rosewood shohin table 230mm x 180mm x 30mm

£70 plus postage

 Rosewood shohin cascade stand 110mm x110mm x 400mm

£85 plus postage

Azalea Kozan update

I've been tidying up a few trees today.
All I did with this Azalea was to take off a few of the spent flowers.
I'll tidy up the foliage in a few more weeks after the tree has finished flowering.

The tree was re-potted in January this year for the Noelanders trophy so I won't be thinking about re-potting for a few years yet.