GSBF Pictures

Just got back from the GSBF, here are some pictures. View attachment 43722

Gorgeous trees and displays. Thanks for sharing!

Suthin and Peter giving demonstrations.

That's all I got, the rest of the time my eyes were dancing from the vendor area to the workshops.

What is that crazy looking hollow stump in this last set of photos? Very cool. I think I'd have to snatch it!
Thanks for the pics, looks like you're not having any trouble finding bonsai community out there!

Looks like a Chinese elm Judy.

Thanks for sharing. Always a treat to attend. I remember attending way back in......... well that's a story for another day. Thanks again.

JudyB said:

What is that crazy looking hollow stump in this last set of photos? Very cool. I think I'd have to snatch it!
Thanks for the pics, looks like you're not having any trouble finding bonsai community out there!

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That was one of the trees styled in a demonstration. I don't remember the species i think it was styled by Kathy Shaner. They had great material for the demonstrations this year. That one wasn't for sale you had to bid on it in the auction, I didn't stay for the auction last night as i'd already spent over what i'd planned. It was probably part of last nights auction, there was a real nice shohin itoigawa styled by Tak Shimazu also in the bidding auction last night. And an amazing Ume which was being styled as I left and was probably i last nights auction. A number of the trees to be auctioned off were show worthy and I figured they'd go for over 1-2k.

I bought 2 nice trees a sequoia collected by Zack Shimon and a black pine which has a high graft of cork bark pine. I plan to separate the two next spring and have 2 pines as they are both nice. Also won a large bunch of Jim Gremels copper wire in one of the silent auctions. If only I hadn't bought a large batch of his wire before the auction, now I have enough copper wire for 2 years which isn't a bad thing.

Thanks for the pictures Beng. It was a great show! Thanks to Nathanbs (his Bonsai Nut name) for finding these great trees and setting up the display area. I spent most of my time at the raffle desk selling tickets so I missed the demos. I did get to watch Mauro's demo though.
Tona

Thanks for the pics!

More GSBF photos in my blog:

Valavanisbonsaiblog.com

Bill

Here's a post I wrote about my day at the convention, with a handful of photos. On the right side of the page I have a gallery of the exhibit trees called "2013 GSBF Show"

http://lexicon.typepad.com/bonsai_dilettante/2013/11/the-2013-gsbf-convention.html

Really nice website and photos of the GSBF convention. Would of liked to go to this but couldn't make it,...thanks for posting