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COMPETITIONS & EXHIBITIONS

The Iowa Bonsai Association currently has two shows annually.  The Fall Bonsai Show is held the first
weekend of October free of a home football game at Iowa State University Reiman Gardens in Ames.  
The summer event is the judged show at the Iowa State Fair in August.  It is properly a State Fair event 
open to entry by any Iowa citizen; the IBA manages the event and the entries have almost always been 
members of the IBA, so the membership has come to view it as their annual judged show.

The biggest bonsai event in the Midwest is held in Chicago annually shortly after the Iowa State Fair, the 
Mid-America Bonsai Show sponsored by the Midwest Bonsai Society and held at the Chicago Botanic 
Garden.  Members of the IBA occasionally enter bonsai in that competition.
 

 

 

IOWA STATE FAIR BONSAI COMPETITION WINNERS   2007

Judge:  Gary Wood

Best of Show:  Ivan Hanthorn, Ames

Novice/Intermediate
1) Josie Boyle, Urbandale
2) Roger Hershey, Newton
3) Roger Hershey, Newton
4) Roger Hershey, Newton
5) Roger Hershey, Newton

Deciduous Trees
1) Bill Ball, Cedar Rapids
2) Ron Heinen, Ames
3) Roger Hershey, Newton
4) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
5) David Lowman, Kelley

Needled Evergreen Trees
1) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
2) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
3) David Lowman, Kelley
4) David Lowman, Kelley
5) Ron Heinen, Ames

Broadleaf Evergreen Trees
1) William Todd Jr., Indianola                     Best of Show and First Place, Needled Evergreen Class
2) Beckham Miller, Ottumwa                             2007 Iowa State Fair, Shimpaku; Ivan Hanthorn
3) William Todd Jr., Indianola
4) Ron Heinen, Ames                           View State Fair Bonsai Competition Winners 2007 photos
5) Ron Heinen, Ames                                                            

Tropical Trees
1) David Lowman, Kelley
2) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
3) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
4) Ron Heinen, Ames
5) Ron Heinen, Ames

Forest, Landscapes & Rock Plantings
1) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
2) Larry Totton, Granger
3) David Lowman, Kelley
4) David Lowman, Kelley
5) Roger Hershey, Newton

Shohin (10" or less in tree height)
1) Bill Ball, Cedar Rapids
2) Ron Heinen, Ames
3) Bill Ball, Cedar Rapids
4) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
5) Bill Ball, Cedar Rapids


MID-AMERICA BONSAI SHOW COMPETITION WINNERS   2007

Judge:  Susumu Nakamura

Award of Merit:  Alan Magruder       

Open Class Ribbons
(Blue Ribbon)  Ivan Hanthorn
(Red Ribbon)  Ivan Hanthorn
(Red Ribbon)  Ivan Hanthorn

      View Mid-America Bonsai Show Competition Winners 2007 photos


2006 Competition Winners



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