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In 1979 I already had a few pieces of collected hornbeams, which I tried to shape based on a newspaper article and a photo. The bonsai exhibition in the Budapest Zoo in 1983 gave a new impetus and I expanded my collection with more plants. |
I joined the Budapest Bonsai Association (BBA) in 1991. I had been a member for 6 years there, then I moved from BBA to the University Bonsai Club (UBC) of the Budapest Horticultural University. I received a Bonsai Certificate of Mastership in 1996, from Tamas Biro, the actual president of UBC with the justification "based on his skills, activity and results we acknowledge him as a Hungarian Master of Bonsai".
I have been the vice president of the University Bonsai Club since 2004.
I am collecting bonsais from domestic trees. I like the very old stocks, and I am shaping these ones with great pleasure. For these shapings I use a chainsaw as well. At the first Hungarian Bonsai Show (which tooke place in the Horticultural University) I shaped my first really big and old plant in 1999. This was a privet (Ligustrum), more than 100 year old, with a trunk of 40 cm in diameter. Since then I have been shaping bonsais each year at exhibitions in Hungary and also in foreign countries.
Gyorgy Racz