IBA Competition Winners

COMPETITIONS & EXHIBITIONS

The Iowa Bonsai Association currently has three shows annually. The Spring Bonsai Show is held at
the Des Moines Botanical Center. 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.

Judge: Jerry Meislik,
Whitefish, Montana

Best of Show: Ivan Hanthorn
Ames, Iowa

Novice/Intermediate
1) David Richmond, Indianola
2) David Richmond, Indianola
3) David Richmond, Indianola
4) David Richmond, Indianola
5) David Richmond, Indianola

Deciduous Trees
1) David Lowman, Kelley
2) Larry Totton, Granger
3) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
4) Larry Totton, Granger

Needled Evergreen Trees
1) Helene Magruder, Indianola
2) David Lowman, Kelley
3) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
4) Fred Truck, West Des Moines
5) Fred Truck, West Des Moines

Broadleaf Evergreen Trees
1) Helene Magruder, Indianola
2) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
3) Fred Truck, West Des Moines

Tropical Trees
1) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
2) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
3) David Lowman, Kelley
4) David Lowman, Kelley
5) Helene Magruder, Indianola

Forest, Landscapes & Rock Plantings
1) Larry Totton, Granger
2) David Lowman, Kelley
3) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
4) Angi Allison, Earlham
5) Larry Totton, Granger

Shohin Trees
1) David Lowman, Kelley
2) David Lowman, Kelley
3) Ivan Hanthorn, Ames
4) David Lowman, Kelley
5) Helene Magruder, Indianola