Bonsai Exhibition Australia - Northern Suburbs Bonsai Club Victoria

G'day YouTube, welcome back to my channel Bonsai Works. I'm at the Northern Suburbs Bonsai Club Bonsai Show this week end in Melbourne in Greensboro in the north of Melbourne. And let's go through and take a walk through of their exhibition and how it all leads. That's their little raffle section if you want to win some raffle prizes. It's the tree that greets you on the way in to the main exhibition area. And we'll go through the exhibition trees one by one. I hopefully caught all the names of every tree so you can have a look. That's an ash on display. A little azalea. I will stop and talk comment about some of the trees as well. Some really good ones. A lot of them speak for themselves especially with the namings. A bit of cork bark starting to happen on that elm. Coming up to a beautiful sticky wattle. Really well displayed. Flowers are Nice interesting trunk. Look through the branching underneath. You see how it hangs beautifully. So moving on to some smaller trees. More small deciduous trees. Elms probably. There's no sign for these ones. But more ramification needed on these little guys. It's quite good to see him but there's more ramification. This is a really nice crape myrtle. I talked to the owner actually and I encouraged him to put another little smaller tree on that bare bit. You know tucked in nicely. It's a crape myrtle. Yeah tuck in nicely on that bare spot. This was a crabapple in flower. More elms. There's lots of elms here in this show. This is an English elm. I think this is another English elm. You had a pine. Probably need a little bit more work and time to get this right. Australian native inner literati style. A little clump of elms which was quite cute. The green wall didn't really add much to the to the room unfortunately. But not much they can do with the green wall. This is a nice little juniper. Twisted up trunks. I think it was quite cool. A lot of these trees could be displayed a bit higher. Especially having to look down. It'd be nice to look into those at eye level. Yes nice twisted trunks on that juniper. A wisterium gloom. Of course going to get lots of publicity. Another elm I believe. Corkybark this one too. It was a native that one. I think it was bottle brush. It's a very large fig here. Really big base. Really thick ficus. They had lots of nice little twisted up minis in this collection. This was a really nice um sage realm. Whilst well displayed the pot is quite striking. With a really striking stand as well. Nice raft kind of style. Really cool. Like a little little bridge on that trunk. And it looks pretty cool with those trunks. So quite a nice tree this one. I did like it. Lots of good positives in this tree. And this display. So you can see sage realm. All right this is a nice little display of this was actually a seven point display. I didn't realize the other tree there was a bit large. But nice little trees in here. Nicely placed together. Big care has gone into this. A selection of trees into this display. There's a list of all the trees in there. I hadn't realized this chibaku was a seven point on there. So it could be a bit smaller. A smaller pot too. But otherwise pretty nice display there. Really well put together. This is a plum. Just just flat um just coming out of spring. Just into spring. So it's all leaves are coming out. And maple grove. Cedar. Atlas. This is an ash. Interesting ash. Looked like it was a dead stump. A dead stump but it has nice whips growing from there. It's a nice little tree. A bit more ramification would have been really good. A little native eucalypt. Really cute little tree. But yeah full of full of foliage would have been really nice. This is a radiata pine. Well quite stunning. Quite old. 50 plus years old. Really amazing trunk. Amazing deadwood. Amazing bark on the trunk. I'll give you a close-up. It's actually quite a large tree. This probably doesn't really show it off in its big splendor. But really gnarly trunk in terms of bark. The foliage lets it down. There is too this vast foliage and needs more foliage and so on. But it's really nice trunk. Really nice. This was on top of the piano. I'm sure it was part of the display. A fig here. Olive was like in a boat-shaped pot. It was very interesting. I didn't expect a boat-shaped pot. There's an umbrella tree I believe. Going through the display. Nice little mini. There's lots of little minis in this show. It's another acacia sticky wattle. Starting the week with the foliage. The pot doesn't really suit it. Another wisteria that's flowering. Great time of year to see flowering wisteria here in Melbourne. It's mid-September. Leo was on stage doing some demos. Showing people what to do. Let's go down the center of the aisle. I think it's a hinoki from memory. There you go. Had a lot of deadwood. A lot of foliage at the back. Really sweet. Brought forward the foliage. I think it's a pikas. This was en route over a rock. It's a nice little juniper. Well displayed. Still young but really nicely displayed. Nice and high. That's what I like to see. Nice another ash. More minis I told you. These guys really do like their little tiny minis. Really well done. Not many sized trees. Beautiful azalea in bloom. Throughout. It's got actually two white spot bottom flowers on the left if you see that. That's a nice nice pop. Japanese. Lovely flowering azalea. Just standard azalea. What that was. This little Chinese elm really caught my attention. It is a super tree. The pot and stand let it down but the tree is superb. Have a look underneath. Trying to get my camera right under so you can see the beautiful work in there. Like that is a really outstanding tree. Lovely Chinese elm. But yeah the pot and stand let it down. Probably needs a round or an oval pot. Really suits it better. Another nice tree. This juniper. Probably a little bit underdone. It'd be nice if it was fully wired and restyled. Some more flowers. I think I'm a primnus or an apricot or something like that. I believe. What was it? There you go. As I said minis galore. Another tiny little one. See lots of twisted up ones. This is a really cool little tree and that's another little twisted up trunk. Really pretty. Really well done. Hard to keep these alive. Those pots are tiny now. We now um now environment Australia that dries out really quick. Look at these how small these are. Absolutely tiny. I don't even know how you would put them grow them in our climate. Doesn't take much in the 20 degree celsius days and they'll be dry very quick. There's a lot of little minis. There's a pyrocanthar. Nice little um uh nice little pine that was grafted. More minis. They're lovely little minis. They're quite cute. Another nice little alum. So maples are just starting to shoot. You can see it's quite young still the foliage. Probably not the best time to show maples as they're just coming out. So just a nice tree but yeah a bit too another month or two would have been perfect to show maples. That's a little shiitake yeah. That's another little juniper. So the northern suburbs bonsai club is a 20 year old club. So it's pretty new but the good thing is they get better and better each year. So that's all you can really ask for. Getting better and better each year. So well done to the team putting all these trees together. Now let's go through some of my favorites um after I show you overall and a quick run through the sales area. Um and I'll show you my favorite trees in the show. So just quick whip through the sales area. Um lots of trees here. I didn't want to go through prices and so on but it was very cheap uh overall. These are pots by Peter Bacos mostly. There's Peter Bacos's details if you want to have a look at his pots. Quite nice. He does ship I believe uh really well done handmade pots in Australia in Melbourne. It's quite reasonably priced. Nice trees. So this is a little sales area they got. Lots of little fire trees everywhere. Quick walk through. Let's have a look. I mean some of those little pines are about $50. Some of these little ones are $10 to $20 $20 so on. So it's pretty cheap and some of the stock at the back you know very cheap like $30 or $40 stock. It's rough but uh you know it's stuff you can build on and work on and build over the years. So it would be good reasonable. Some of these pines are about $100. Um yeah most most things weren't that expensive. So it was actually very reasonably priced especially if you want just stock. You know stuff that you can work on and build on and get better and better over time. So there you go. Just a quick walk through. That's pretty much it. This back area here have had really cheap stock like $30 $40 stock. Um I don't know what that was but that's all very cheap. You see some of the numbers on there. $38 or $28 or $40. It's actually nice stock. Um but you really gotta build up a tree and work on them. So if you just want rough stock it's a very very good area to be. Lots of people looking at trees to buy. Some of this stuff was like $10. I think that was $10 that one that I'm pointing out. I think it was in some sort of maple probably. So just go through this side quickly. Let's just talk about some of the I think I picked out four trees that I liked in the show that I thought were um more outstanding. They're a bit of honorable mention to the uh seven point display. That was quite nice. But I picked out four trees that I thought were worthy of another check. Um three of them there were issues that I felt that stopped it winning. Um and the first one this one the Cedric Elm. Like it's a really nice beautiful tree. That pot is stunning and that stand is incredible right. Incredible stand and pot but it distracts you from the tree. And the tree's really good. So it's just a bit of a when you walk up to this tree you'll go what an amazing pot. What amazing stand. And then you'll look at the tree. The Radiata Pond beautiful. Oh the bark is incredible. Like it really is and quite large. Tried to put my hand there so you can see roughly how big it is for scale but the foliage let it down. But and again incredible tree. Lovely tree in the show. Um so Cedric Elm and this one you just see they're they're not 100% but really really nice. Just little things that you know distracted it from winning. Now this one this one killed me because this is easily for me the best tree in the show. Absolute beautiful tree. Stunning work. Great work. Really well done. Look at that. Look at that. You're looking into it. When you look up that looks like an old humongous tree in nature. It's beautiful. Even the deadwood in the middle for that pot and stand kill me. So sorry whoever the owner is please get a better pot and please get a better stand next year. They show which year wins for me. A very understated pot. Very understated stand. Focuses on the tree and that's how it should be. It looks beautiful. It's so subtle the pot and stand. The tree just speaks for itself. It's gorgeous. Thanks for watching everyone. I'll see you around for more videos in the future.