BONSAI EXHIBITION | 2023, OCT 28/29 | DIEPENBEEK, BELGIUM
Members and trees are getting ready for our exhibition. Several tokonoma settings will provide the best experience to admire the beauty and dedication. We will also various well respected traders of bonsai, suiseki, tools and related articles.
In case you haven’t already, save the date in your agenda. We’d be thrilled to meet other enthusiasts, and spend quality time together.
LIJDIA CARPENTIER EXHIBITION | HONORARY MEMBER | ‘MY LIFELONG PASSION’ EXHIBITION
On March 25/26, longtime club member Lijdia Carpentier organised her bonsai exhibition, titled ‘my lifelong passion’. She showed more than 30 of her best trees, all groomed to perfection over the course of many years. It is rare you will find such a good collection of trees in one exhibition, it is truly a unique experience when these belong to the same person. Not surprisingly that Lijdia was awarded during her show with the honorary membership of Eda Uchi Kai.
OUR MONTHLY CLUB EVENTS
Our club program is packed with nice events. Every month we meet, and aim to improve our knowledge and skills. We have been fortunate to welcome many bonsai professionals from around the world. For more info on our upcoming club events, check out the activities page on the site.
PRESENTING BONSAI
APRIL | As always it was a pleasure to welcome Teunis-Jan Klein to our club. He took us through every aspect of presenting bonsai. A very welcome and interesting topic in a year where we will host our tri-annual exhibition.
WORKSHOP ACCENT PLANTS
JUNE | Under the professional guidance from Sven Bertholt, we spent a full day workshop on creating accent plants, both kusamono as well as the smaller shitakusa. We all went home with new insights and ….. gorgeous accent plants!
FOREST PLANTING
FEBRUARY | It’s always a pleasure to welcome Jarek Lenarczyk. During a 2 hour demo he created a beautiful Japanese larch forest planting from scratch. Jarek explained every step of the process, providing tips & tricks and answering questions from the engaged group of members.
YEAR OPENING
JANUARY | 2023 started well with our first club meeting in which we welcomed 3 new committee members. And Alain De Wachter provided tips and tricks on how to further improve a zelkova, with the help from the zelkova from Wim Jame. Needless to say that we listened carefully.
DEADWOOD DEMO
DECEMBER | At the end of 2022, during our December club evening, we welcomed Andres Bicocca and Márcio Meruje as our special guests. Andres demonstrated his famous woodworking skills on a few trees, and shared many insights that will help us to continue to develop our trees.