John Armitage, well known in bonsai circles, will as part of the Mame/Shohin exhibition be doing a demonstration during the day with this tree. This is in the fitness room, during the Swindon ‘Winter Image’ show on Sunday the 15th February 2026. https://swindon-bonsai.co.uk/2025/11/19/new-for-the-2026-swindon-winter-image-show/ At the conclusion of the demo/workshop he will be donating this tree to the raffle.
Twickenham Bonsai Club was founded in 2019 with just a few members and has flourished to a membership of around fifty.
This is the fifth show the club has put on, a combination of both summer & winter shows. Each club member was invited to display three trees, and as more trees were put forward than the club had room for, a selection process had to take place.
It was great to see such positive engagement by all their club members, and year on year the standard of their trees continues to develop, and it was a pleasure to attend their show today.
A visitor vote for the best tree is used, also the winning trees from the previous summer show were invited back for second display (but excluded from voting this show).
The winners of the public vote were Liz with her Acer palmatum ‘Shishigashira’ in 3rd place, Mark with his Acer palmatum ‘Arakawa’ in 2nd place and Terry with his Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Boulevard’ in 1st place. Tina Todd was also presented by Tony Peter Ulatowski with the RHS medal for all her contributions to the bonsai club.
The show was a buzz with lots of visitors plus conversation and activity with club members working on their trees. Mark was building a double tier Japanese Larch forest which looked great.
The venue is ideal for a bonsai club show being spacious and well lit too. They even had a food catering truck provided by Jason Fisher this year, their own club sales and traders including Nick Payne of Springwood Ceramics, Neil Hutchings of Devon Bonsai Nursery, Vinay Rathore of Toko-en Bonsai and Stuart Beresford.
As a club they are always progressive and this year have compiled a book of their 2025 club newsletters which are very informative and it is a first which will be available to purchase from the club later this year. They also have partnered with Over Rock where you can purchase Twickenham Bonsai Club merchandise from Over Rock’s website.
Here are all the trees used in the show as well as some photos’ from the British Shohin Bonsai Co-operative and the UK Bonsai Group exhibition, talk and demo held in the fitness room at the centre on Sunday the 15th February 2026. Thanks to Andy and Mandy for the pictures. [click to enlarge the photo]……..
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