You have to get the balance right in a club so people have time to work on there own trees with advice and opinions from other members along with a number of 'experts' in the program that educate and fire up the enthsiasum in the club with talks, demos and assited workshops etc.
Any club show i feel should be for all members not just for the few that have been doing Bonsai for a number of years so have six trees in each to make up the show. A new comer should be able to show his or her trees to make them feel part of the club and the standards they can reach.
Jesse Cook Jr - 11 years ago
Hey Tony, I been doing Bonsai for about 7 years, or at least I thought I was until I joined a club about 2 years ago. The wealth of knowledge I've received by going to meetings is like night & day compared to reading a book or the Internet. I went to my first Bonsai show this past April and let me tell you it's just amazing what I learned over that weekend. I belong to Pennsylvania Bonsai Society and won the ticket for that weekend at our raffle we have at our meeting. That weekend changed the way I look at Bonsai and trees. Plus I met other members of the Brandywine Bonsai Society which I joined at their next meeting. Both clubs are fantastic. The members go out of their way to share information, they have awesome guest teachers, Boon Manakitivipart, Chase Rosade & David Easterbrook just this past year. I can't get enough. After going to my first show I wanted to throw away most of my trees too, but just can't part with them. A lot of them will go into the landscape, and then maybe I'll pull them up in a couple years. Sorry about the clubs in the UK, but our clubs on the East Coast rock, I would join more but there too far away 50 miles or more. Love your emails & look forward to them every week.
You have to get the balance right in a club so people have time to work on there own trees with advice and opinions from other members along with a number of 'experts' in the program that educate and fire up the enthsiasum in the club with talks, demos and assited workshops etc.
Any club show i feel should be for all members not just for the few that have been doing Bonsai for a number of years so have six trees in each to make up the show. A new comer should be able to show his or her trees to make them feel part of the club and the standards they can reach.
Hey Tony, I been doing Bonsai for about 7 years, or at least I thought I was until I joined a club about 2 years ago. The wealth of knowledge I've received by going to meetings is like night & day compared to reading a book or the Internet. I went to my first Bonsai show this past April and let me tell you it's just amazing what I learned over that weekend. I belong to Pennsylvania Bonsai Society and won the ticket for that weekend at our raffle we have at our meeting. That weekend changed the way I look at Bonsai and trees. Plus I met other members of the Brandywine Bonsai Society which I joined at their next meeting. Both clubs are fantastic. The members go out of their way to share information, they have awesome guest teachers, Boon Manakitivipart, Chase Rosade & David Easterbrook just this past year. I can't get enough. After going to my first show I wanted to throw away most of my trees too, but just can't part with them. A lot of them will go into the landscape, and then maybe I'll pull them up in a couple years. Sorry about the clubs in the UK, but our clubs on the East Coast rock, I would join more but there too far away 50 miles or more. Love your emails & look forward to them every week.
Thanks, Jesse
Interesting Tony to see 'my club sucks' as the lead voting sector. Thank YOU though for taking the time to write what you have!