The complete book of bonsai
Harry Tomlinson · 1990 · 224 pages
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About this book
This volume introduces the art of bonsai, the Japanese art form using miniature trees grown in containers. The author traces bonsai's origins and development, as well as examining its underlying principles. The types of containers are detailed, and the importance of their use for different trees or styles explained. Advice is given on placing and exhibiting your completed bonsai. The author provides information on how to create a bonsai from a seedling, cutting, or garden center plant. Clear step-by-step sequences take readers from the initial raw material through to the finished bonsai, showing the superb results that can be achieved. All the tools and techniques of bonsai are illustrated and explained, and their use described in detail. Maintenance and propagation sections describe everything needed to know to bonsai plantings beautiful and healthy, or to create your new projects. Also, a photographic catalog of bonsai trees and shrubs provides the cultivation and styling details of over 100 different species.
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