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Challenger TAFE Adult Education Bonsai
Workshop #1 - 2003
The Venue
Conducted by
Challenger TAFE Centre for Adult
Education, our first "Basics of Bonsai"
workshop in this series was set inside the
leafy courtyards of the John Curtin
College of the Arts in Fremantle on
Saturday 22nd of November 2003.
The large
Science Lab setting was ideal, giving us
plenty of room for presenter Liana,
attendees and an enormous amount of Bonsai
requisites. There were pots, tools,
soils, gravels, more than enough stock
trees to develop into Bonsai and of course
Liana's ready potted Bonsai in many
different styles.
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The Event
By starting time of 10.00 am, all
was ready and we didn't waste a minute -
there was much to do and discuss in our
allotted six hours. With twenty
different species of tree and ten different
styles to prepare, considerable effort was
put into pruning, wiring, shaping, trimming
roots and positioning the Bonsai in their
pots.
We worked on
styles such as "root over rock",
"windswept" and "raft" and at times needed
to repair damaged trunks and split
branches. Everyone prepared their
Bonsai with vigour and achieved
sensational results. We then took
time for questions and answers and to
collectively discuss the challenges we had
all faced and overcome during the very
interactive session.
The
gathering for a photograph or two was a
must - our thanks and congratulations go
to Challenger TAFE Centre for Adult
Education and the six participants, who
are proud to show their Bonsai creations
to the world...!
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