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Of the forty displays at the exhibition, four received awards. Ed Lauer won “Best Winter Silhouette,” Brian Mercer and Brad Russell won “Best Conifer,” Joseph Noga won “Best Fruiting Bonsai,” and Don Kimball won “People’s Choice Award.
The exhibition had a number of excellent seedling-grown Pseudocydonia sinensis. While it takes far longer to attain flowers/ fruit on seed-grown quince, the finer branching and smaller foliage makes designs like these possible.
Top left; Gary Andes’ Pseudocydonia sinensis Bottom left; Troy Schmidt’s Pseudocydonia sinensis
Bottom right; Gary Andes’ collected Potentilla fruticosa from Northern Canada.
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Top Right: Diospyros rhombifolia; winner of “Best Fruiting Bonsai” by
Joseph Noga
Top Left; Pyrus calleryana ‘Robinson’ by William N. Valavanis Bottom left; Martin Sweeney’s Acer palmatum
Bottom right; William N. Valavanis’ Chinese elm forest