Pacific Bonsai Expo recap – Bonsai Tonight

I’m quiet catching up from the festivities final weekend, however I wished to allotment three issues connected to the match earlier than transferring forward: the winners, the thank yous, and a few photos.

First up, the winning entries!

The Expo identified six excellent entries with the next awards.

• Easiest in Demonstrate: Ponderosa Pine by Randy Knight, $2500 award backed by the Golden Remark Bonsai Federation
• Easiest Conifer: Shimpaku juniper by Jeff Stern, $2000 award backed by Robert Pressler, Kimura Bonsai and Panorama Nursery
• Easiest Deciduous: Winter hazel by Andrew Robson, $2000 award backed by Peter Tea, PTBonsai.com
• Easiest Broadleaf Evergreen: Chinese language Banyan Tiger Bark Ficus by Jeff Stern, $2000 award backed by John Kim and Michelle Hong, Joshua Roth Minute
• Easiest Medium Indicate: Korean hornbeam and Japanese dark pine by Jonas Dupuich, $2000 award backed by Encinal Nursery and Jeff Stern
• Easiest Shohin Indicate: float redwood, Japanese quince, trident maple, Japanese maple, olive, and potentilla by Jeff Stern, $2000 award backed by the California Shohin Society

You most likely can get out relating to the judging activity and glimpse photos of those bushes on the Expo net location.

As for the thank yous, Eric and I will’t adequately suppose our gratitude in a single circulation so we’ll be thanking early and customarily. To the exhibitors, distributors, visitors, volunteers, venue staff, and committee participants, thanks to your contributions! If the Expo proved anything it’s that such an match can’t happen with out the contributions of many of of ecstatic participants training a shared aim: to give a magnificent station for folks exhaust time with involving bushes.

We’ve began placing collectively a more exhaustive checklist of volunteers on the Expo net location. I imply checking it out and thanking somebody on this checklist for helping everytime you to find the likelihood.

Over the course of the weekend I had miniature time to acquire photos, however on one circulation I captured about a of the bushes within the first row in direction of the discontinue of the day when the sunshine turned golden. Listed below are about a of the highlights.

Shimpaku juniper by Jeff Stern

Yatsabusa corkbark elm by Ryan Neil

Cork oak by Michael Roberts

Winter hazel by Andrew Robson

Shimpaku juniper by Boon Manakitivipart

Sooner than signing off, I wished to issue a fourth item by answering a ask of that’s attain up loads this week: yes, we’re planning to attain it again!

Eric and I are currently onerous at work planning for the next Expo, currently slated for Plunge, 2024. Whenever you possess solutions for what we can attain higher next time, feel free to permit us to grab within the feedback under.