Once again the June "Show and Sale" of "The Toronto Bonsai Society" was a great success.

One aspect of the show that appealed to most visitors was the ongoing demonstration of tree styling that took place both on Saturday and Sunday, and that will occur again at this fall's show.

Below you will find a number of trees illustrated to show the changes that were created in the course of our two day event. The "after" picture, is not, in every case, the final, styled tree, as envisioned by the bonsai artist, but may represent an intermediate design stage, with more changes coming in the future. David Johnson's "Amur Maple, for instance, illustrates what the tree looked like both before and after David "air layered" its root system.

Many other trees were worked on, but are unavailable for you to see here, since they missed the necessary picture-taking opportunities.

An amur maple ready for some root air layering.	The completed tree - all that's now needed is time for the roots to grow.
A boxwood from one of our workshops a couple of years ago.	A nice styling has been performed by Jeff Shortt!
A marvellous, but overgrown, cedar.	Numerous branches were removed to highlight the trunk - much time will be required for the new apex to develop.
An overgrown elm candidate in its growing box.	Major branch removal and leaf stripping shows the trunk's potential. It is now also being root "air layered".
A massive elm with a split trunk, that once was part of a hedge.	With its split trunk and many branches removed, there doesn't seem to be too much tree remaining.
A japanese maple...	... and after leaf defoliating.
A juniper...	... and after a major design change.
Another juniper ... not my best picture ever.	... and after its style change.
A pair of blauwii junipers	... and after their style change.
A collected white pine with many problems.	The revised edition looks worse, but is now ready for a good deal of in-arch grafting which should produce an interesting tree.
A nicely shaped tree	being refined.
An Alberta spruce with too many branches, typical of the variety.	Hopefully the traumatized tree will recover in due time.