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The Illawarra Bonsai Society has a long and illustrious history with Bonsai in Sydney, and provides a place of learning in the art of Bonsai in southern Sydney and beyond.

17/06/2026

Last Monday nights meeting was very well attended by members and guests. Chris D gave a demonstration on bending using Raphia, rubber bicycle tube or Surgical tape as a strapping material to help prevent cracking the branch. He also demonstrated various tools to act as levers to help the bending process.
Lee and Mark critiqued the members display trees give good advice on how the trees could be improved to bring them to the next level of their development.
Hope you enjoy these photos of the members trees in this month’s display.

03/05/2026

Another great day at the show.
I hope you enjoy the photos of our memers trees. To all the people who attended, thankyou for your support. Hope to see you again next year.

02/05/2026

First day of our annual show got off to a great start. Lots of people from the general public and members of other Bonsai clubs attended and enjoyed the display.
The show's on again today from 10am at Gymea Trade Unions Club, Gymea.
Hope to see you there. I'll have more photos to publish tomorrow, so keep an eye on our FB page.

29/04/2026

Illawarra Bonsai Society will be holding our Annual Show at the Gymea Tradies this weekend. If you're interested in Bonsai or just like to admire the little trees this is an event not to missed.

21/04/2026

Our April meeting started with a talk from Brenda showing how to prepare a bonsai tree for showing, stands and choosing a companian plant. This talk was particularly relevent as we have our annual show coming up in a couple weeks. Keep an eye out for our information flyer which will be republished over the next few days.
Here are some of the trees displayed at the club meeting. Hope you enjoy them.

18/02/2026

This was our first night back from the holiday break. The meeting was well attended but not many members trees on display. It seems the extreme weather has taken it's toll on our trees.
Luckily our club president Brenda brought along some of her Suiseki collection and delivered an informative talk on the subject.
For those not familiar, Suiseki is an artform that goes hand-in-hand with Bonsai. As in bonsai, stones must represent something in nature e.g. a mountain, an animal, a waterfall etc. It is only up gto the creative imagination of the artist to give the viewer what this stone is representing.
Brenda took the club audience on a tour of prehistoric proportions from the hills to the ocean and even tsunamis that have evolved into her collection over the decades. She schooled us all in how to display and grow our own collections.

23/11/2025

Our November meeting was well attending and many of our members brought their trees along for display. I hope you enjoy these photos.
We also had a demonstration by Chris D. on Ficus. Chris demonstrated technics for developing ramification, air root development and general maintenance. He also brought along several trees from his own collection.

19/09/2025

We were presented with an informative demonstration by one of our club members . Mark showed us how the create a "root connected raft". He started with a piece of marine ply with holes drilled through in an arrangement that would creat a forest look. Seedlings of Trident Mapples were then theaded through the holes leaving their root system underneath the ply. The arrangement is then planted in a deep pot to allow growth and a layer of soil covered over the top of the ply.
After a couple of years the trees swell over the holes and set roots on top of the ply. The roots under the ply can then be removed. The new roots on top of the ply will over time fuse together to become one mass.
I'm sure we all learned something from this demo, especially someof the newer members.

26/08/2025

At this months meeting we had the pleasure of meeting presented with a demonstration by Clinton Nesci. Clinton brought along a flowering cheery plum which has been laying down the back of his nursery for many years. upon closer inspection Clinton noticed that the centre of the tree was entirely rotted through. So he decided to cut it in half vertically into 2 separate trees.
Big thanks to Clinton for showing us a technique that we don't get to see very often.

18/06/2025

At our June meeting we had the pleasure of watching Linh Khan create a magnificent landscape. Hope you enjoy the pics.
Thankyou Linh for a great night.

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Gymea, NSW

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http://www.illawarrabonsaisociety.org/

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