Another busy workshop night at Bonsai Northwest. Considering the meeting night fell on Melbourne Cup Eve (public holiday in Melbourne) a great turnout of 60 members worked on different trees.

Beautiful flowering azalea.	Another beautiful flowering azalea.
Lovely japanese maple.	A prunus brought in by Dave from Bendigo.
A saikai of cedars.	A recently styled cedar.
Vencel working on his cedar.	Peter brought in this healthy firethorn.
Peter's tree after some cutting back and initial styling.	A large desert ash awaiting some styling suggestions.
The desert ash after restyling.	Large olive awaiting initial styling advice.
Large olive with new front and branches cut back.	Raffied tall cedar awaiting styling.
Some bends applied to the trunk.	Lola lends a hand.
A member brought in this tree to work on.	Discussion over this juniper.
Glenys and Barry having a chat.	Good sized crowd at the workshop.
Kevin and Ray deep in conversation.	The lovely ladies watching from a distance.
A good ole chuckle at the back of the room.	Dave Allen lent a helping hand.
Pat McDonald made this magpie for a raffle prize.	Lola's crab apple in need of a change.
Quentin helps Lola to air layer her tree.	Many interested members watched on as Quentin went to work.
Michael and Ted having a break.	Lots of discussion about this juniper.
Ron still hard at work selling raffle tickets.	Very pleased with this little windswept.
More happy members.	Ray and Victor still hard at work.
Life members John and Peter.	Still working away.

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