NABF Newsletter #6

Feature #9

Vancouver Island Bonsai Club

We have a very active club in the beautiful city of Victoria, B.C. The temperate climate here is very suitable for the growing and caring of numerous types of bonsai, many of which you will see throughout our site. Our members range in age and experience but we all share a common passion for this ancient art form.

Every year the Vancouver Island Bonsai Club Runs a spring show at one of the largest shopping malls on the Island. Over a 150 trees from the membership are on display for three days. Here are some of those trees:

In addition to the annual show many activities take place throughout the year. Workshops are run for the members at all levels, collecting trips to nurseries that contain potential bonsai are organized, as well as the trips up to the mountains.

Images of recent workshops:

Conventions of the Pacific Northwest, take place in different cities each year.In 2000 Victoria was the lucky city. It went splendidly:

In 2004 Victoria gets to do it again:

2004 Pacific Northwest Bonsai Convention XV
"Talk to the Trees"

September 17 - 19, 2004
Laurel Point Inn
Victoria, BC

Visiting Guest Artists Resident Guest Artists
Cheryl Manning David Rowe
Los Angeles, CA Parksville, BC

Bob Wilcox Dan Robinson
Toronto, ON Bremerton, WA