Brian Sampson is a highly sought after Bonsai Demonstrator on the Australian Scene. He specialises in using Australian native plants in natural landscapes. Brian enthralled BNW members, combining a slate slab, scoria rocks, 'muck' and Casuarinas to produce a magnificent landscape of Australian native trees. A fantastic night was had by all. Many thanks to Brian for his excellent work.

Brian used slate as his base and combined scoria rock to form his walls to create a pot.	Brian explained how Australian natives should be styled as they appear in nature. This coastal tea tree is styled in a natural windswept form.
Landscape of coastal tea trees in a natural form.	Casuarina stock selection.
More Casuarinas to choose from.	More Casuarinas to choose from.
More Casuarinas to choose from.	Quentin and Barry gave Brian a hand root pruning the Casuarinas.
Brian selected his best Casuarinas and placed them first.	Brian added soil to the landscape.
Placement of the tallest tree.	Placement of the best tree in the second group.
Front view of the landscape in progress.	Brian trims some smaller trees to be added to the landscape.
Most trees are now in.	Barry adds more muck to the crevices in the rock walls.
Barry and his muck!!!	All hands on deck with wiring in the trees, working in the soil and adding muck and moss.
Almost done.	Finished...for now. Great work Brian. Lots of growing and trimming to come in the future.
More than 90 members saw Brian's landscape creation.	Members enjoy a break afterwards.
Graham and Kevin have a chat.	Lola and Peter take care of the raffle in Ron's absence.
Barry and Warren catch up.	Warren and Frank.
Glenys and Irene.	Banksia from the display table.
Large beautiful fig.	Oriential apricot
Large Cascade juniper.	Beautiful juniper.
Pyracantha.	Raft of olives.
Beautiful old group of coastal tea trees.

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