17 January 1977. ‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’ – and there is no if about it, Winter has come. As I write, in mid-January, there is chaos by road and rail, power-supplies are damaged, disorganisation is widespread. The agent of this disruption is a tiny fragile Read more
All, A Happy New Year to you and yours! Please find below and attached the January 2026 Edition of the Midland Bonsai Society (MBS) and Redditch Bonsai Society (RBS) Newsletter which is available completely for FREE as a PDF Download. MBS Members should note that the meeting on Thursday (8th Read more
Please find attached and below our December 2025 – MBS and RBS Newsletter. REDDITCH BONSAIwww.midlandbonsai.org www.redditchbonsai.co.ukEDITOR’S REMARKS.We look forward to seeing you at the MBS A G M this Thursday, which is arguably the mostimportant meeting of the year. If you have any proposals to put forward it would be Read more
Please find attached and below our November 2025 – MBS and RBS Newsletter. REDDITCH BONSAIwww.midlandbonsai.org www.redditchbonsai.co.ukEdition of November 2025EDITOR’S REMARKS.We hope that all those attending the 50th Anniversary bash last month enjoyed the evening. Wecertainly did and we thought it was a great success overall. We have certainly received somepositive Read more
Please find attached and below our September 2025 – 50th Anniversary Special Edition Newsletter. REDDITCH BONSAIwww.midlandbonsai.org www.redditchbonsai.co.ukEDITOR’S REMARKS.The MBS has now been in existence for 50 years which is a significant period of time andrepresents a great milestone. The society started life all those years ago in an upstairs room Read more
Change of Itinerary/Schedule for Thursday 4th September 2025. Please kindly note that due to unforeseen circumstances Moseley Cricket Club have informed us that their function room is unavailable for us to use on Thursday 4th September. This is due to them accommodating a funeral wake. It is therefore proposed that Read more
Please find attached and below our August 2025 Newsletter. REDDITCH BONSAIwww.midlandbonsai.org www.redditchbonsai.co.ukEdition of August 2025.EDITOR’S REMARKS.Teanah has very kindly prepared an extensive report upon this meeting and as it runsto five whole pages we will send this to you as a separate item.We set later in the edition some comments Read more
Please find attached and below an Addendum of the Presentation by Teanah Rowland. Accent Plants – Presented by Teanah Rowland 3rd July 2025Bonsai Empirehttps://www.bonsaiempire.com/origin/related-arts/accent-plantsKusamono or Shitakusa草もの – Bonsai trees are sometimes traditionally displayed in aTokonoma, consisting of a Bonsai tree, a scroll and an accent plant(representing men, heaven and earth Read more
Please find attached and below our July 2025 Newsletter. REDDITCH BONSAIwww.midlandbonsai.org www.redditchbonsai.co.ukEdition of July 2025.EDITOR’S REMARKS.Well, another Show has come and gone! We feel that this year’s was one of the best and hope thatyou agree. Your committees feel that the Gardens’ decision not to allow the use of the Read more
Please find below and attached our June 2025 Newsletter. REDDITCH BONSAIwww.midlandbonsai.org www.redditchbonsai.co.ukEdition of June 2025.EDITOR’S REMARKS.The show is bearing down on us at a rate of knots. So far, as at 27th May, we have had entries for areasonable number of trees but from only a surprisingly small number of Read more