So despite the weather not being the greatest we had a good turn out, with new (welcome John!) and old faces and after good couple of hours in the woods we left with a bundle of new material. Amongst the collected trees were beech, spruce, hemlock, turkey oak, silver birch and yew. Only Brian refrained from collecting anything, he claims to have enough trees! Nevertheless his experience along with that of Neil Hutchings of Devon Bonsai was invaluable for the newbies amongst us.
The following day we had our monthly meeting, a repotting workshop with the focus being on the collected trees and most of these photos are the results of that. In other business Brian brought along a few trees that have been donated to the club. Each tree brought with it some issues and they have been rehomed with various club members to improve their skills and hopefully with that, the trees themselves.
