GSBF Rendezvous 2025 this weekend!

[JEads]

Other than @PaulH (who is leading a workshop) , who else is going to the GSBF Rendezvous this weekend?
This will be my first rendezvous to attend and I would love to meet a few of you. I am teaching a juniper workshop with some of my ground grown trees as well as vending a few trees that just got plucked out of the grow beds.
Should be great time. Stop by and say hi.
Cheers
John

 

[Ruddigger]

I’ll see you there John. I’ll have two trees in the show and I’m doing the Rising Stars competition on Saturday.

 

[JEads]

I’ll see you there John. I’ll have two trees in the show and I’m doing the Rising Stars competition on Saturday.

Yeah, I saw you on the list for the rising star competition. Best of luck!
See you there

 

[NaoTK]

I’m doing the Rising Stars competition on Saturday.

Come back with your shield or on it

 

[n8]

I will not be there, but I've had to travel through Santa Nella a bunch in the last year and the Taste of India on Route 33 is some pretty damn good Punjabi food.

 

[John7429]

I'm going~

 

[ZombieNick]

I’ll see you there John. I’ll have two trees in the show and I’m doing the Rising Stars competition on Saturday.

Good luck man, I am sure you are going to kill it!

 

[Ruddigger]

Come back with your shield or on it

Yeah, well about that…

I’m proud of my result, although it didn’t win. It did sell for the most at the auction though.

My tree:


The winner (Daniel Martinez) :

 

[ZombieNick]

I had it:
1. You
2. Matthew
3. Addison

Not a fan of the deadwood on the winner.

 

[NaoTK]

Who were the judges and did they explain why was that the winner? The wiring is bad and it doesn't look polished

 

[Ruddigger]

Mauro and Suthin were the judges. They did talk about the trees individually, but nothing they said justified why they chose what they did. I can say the crowd was very confused.

 

[BrianBay9]

Does anyone have pictures of the club displays?

 

[Notsureaboutplantnames]

I had your tree pegged as #1.
I liked the shape of your tree, nice trunk movement, the angle of the lateral branches and the amount of retained foliage.

Did. you also have a tree in the display?

 

[Notsureaboutplantnames]

Does anyone have pictures of the club displays?

these are on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bonsai/comments/1og7jvw/gsbf_rendezvous_2025joshua_roth_competition/

 

[Ruddigger]

I had your tree pegged as #1.
I liked the shape of your tree, nice trunk movement, the angle of the lateral branches and the amount of retained foliage.

Did. you also have a tree in the display?

Yep, I had two.

 

[JEads]

Here are a few of the display trees not previously posted. Sorry about the quality, I caught the show when the lighting was bad.

 

[BrianBay9]

So what is that tree in the last photo? A pine with a camoflauged trunk?

 

[afleischer]

So what is that tree in the last photo? A pine with a camoflauged trunk?

Lacebark Pine I believe.

 

[JEads]

So what is that tree in the last photo? A pine with a camoflauged trunk?

Yes, lace bark pine

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

So what is that tree in the last photo? A pine with a camoflauged trunk?

Lacebark pine(s)

• P. bungeana – lacebark pine
• P. gerardiana – chilgoza pine
• P. squamata – Qiaojia pine

The species most often seen in horticulture is from China and Japan, Pinus bungeana. All three species have smooth flaking bark, in bungeana reveals patches of silver and green. The others have similar patterns, but one might be more brown and green than silver and green. The other two pines are quite rare, threatened or endangered in their environments. All are Asiatic in origin.

Three to five needles in a bundle, my seedlings always seem to have 3 needles. The group is placed in section Quinquefoliae (the 5 needles pines) growth habit related to 5 needle pines, like Pinus strobus, and growth habits look somewhat similar. Though some mention growth pattern is more like pinion pines. Needles are moderately long, longer than P, parvifolia. I got seed from Sheffield's some years ago. Seem easy enough to grow.

In landscape nursery circles, Pinus bungeana is the lacebark pine planted, used mainly for its smooth silver bark with patches of green. Hardy to at least zone 5b, possibly a little colder. I'm north of Chicago, south of Milwaukee.