IBA Competition Winners

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

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
2) Beckham Miller, Ottumwa
3) William Todd Jr., Indianola                     Best of Show and First Place, Needled Evergreen class
4) Ron Heinen, Ames                                            2007 Iowa State Fair - Shimpaku juniper
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

Award of Merit: Alan Magruder

Open Class Ribbons
1st) Ivan Hanthorn
2nd) Ivan Hanthorn
3rd) Ivan Hanthorn

2006 Competition Winners