Vic Native Bonsai

Exhibition Weekend 21st and 22nd March 2025

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The 2025 Exhibition of the Victorian Native Bonsai Club was held at Preston City Hall on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd of March.

We had a fascinating range of 63 bonsai Australian native plants on display, as well as having a wide range of bonsai and native plants suitable for bonsai for sale, along with plenty of pots and tools suitable for bonsai.

There was a good crowd of attendees on both the Friday night and Saturday, with plenty of new faces as well as many of our bonsai friends. 

The prize for the Best Eucalypt in Show was judged by Professor David Cantrill, Executive Director Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, and incoming Chair of the Dahl Trust, which operates as Eucalypt Australia.

This year, the award went to a tree by Marcela Ferriera, VNBC Secretary and highly regarded bonsai grower. The tree is an Angophora costata, Sydney Red Gum, with beautiful form and a great crown, along with the outstanding bark which can be characteristic of this species.

Prof David Cantrill and Marcela with the winning eucalypt

 

The Public’s Choice Award was won by a Coastal tea tree, Gaudium laevigatum, grown by Quentin Valentine.

More photos to come soon, and will be available in our photo gallery.

 

2025 – February and March Club Meetings

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Both of the club’s Tuesday night meetings for February and March have been workshop nights, for club members to work on their trees, with assistance if required, and to review and prepare trees for the club’s annual Exhibition.

Some demonstration work at the February meeting looked at continuing the restyling and development of the club’s Sheoak tree, as well as looking at progress on several other native bonsai trees which have been previously discussed at earlier meetings.

Club Casuarina being reviewed
This is the front today!

As always at these workshop nights, there was plenty of activity and progress on members’ trees.