What a great night was experienced at Bonsai Northwest with Max Lehey, a highly experienced bonsai grower in Australia, showed us how to graft crab apples. He then helped 25 members attempt to graft their own crab apples onto apple stock. A great fun night.

Robert looking after the sales table.	Ian always has the library under control.
Stunning corky bark elm forest on the display table.	A group of swamp cypress and a grafted apple.
Max's world famous Elm that received a JAL World Bonsai Award.	Magnolia starting to flower.
Big cascading fruiting tree.	Max preparing on stage with Brendan looking on.
Ron does a great job on the sales table.	Well over 90 people waiting for Max to start.
Max talks on a number of subjects, air layering, grafting and creating broom style elms.	Close up of the graft join that Max creates.
Lots of scion and apple bases to choose from.	An apple that has formed an interesting base.
Max enjoys this old grafted tree.	Members attempted the grafting with Max's help.
Still trying to graft.	Ian talking with a new member.
John and Peter catch up.	Members stand around and observe the grafting.
Roland, David and Ray having a chat.	Shane is all smiles as he found out his lovely wife will be sending him to see Kimura in Sydney.
Members having a chat.	Glenys reads out the raffle prize winners.
Big tree for future styling.	A stunning group of chinese quince.
Irene all smiles as usual.	Members crowd the raffle table for the results.
Close up of members working on their grafting techniques.	New member Gabby concentrates on her grafting her crabapple.
Member's Beverly and Laura	Nick finally wins a raffle prize.
Happy with their grafting results.	Vencel's always happy especially with his newly grafted crab apple.

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