Club Show – 2019

57th Annual Show

We hosted our 57th Annual Show on the weekend of April 27 – 28, 2019. Hundreds of people visited our show and watched the demos on Saturday by Sam Adina. Below are some of the trees that were on display.

Thanks to club member Sabrina Huang for her professional photography expertise. We’d like to share a pointer to some of her work – Sabrina Huang Photography (San Francisco)

Shohin

Shohin are smaller sized bonsai, between 3″ and 8″ tall.

Medium-to-Large Sized Bonsai

In our club most bonsai fall into the Medium (10 to 24″) or Large (> than 24″) categories. Smaller sized bonsa are called Shohin. There are also very large to enormous bonsai (up to 80″ tall) but we don’t show those at this show. If you’re curious how anything so large can be a bonsai, the answer is simple. Any tree grown in a pot can be a bonsai – if it has been styled. But few bonsai outside the Japanese Imperial collection are that large.