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Best books to learn Bonsai, in order

Bonsai is horticulture and art at once, so you first learn to keep a tree simply alive, watering, light, and choosing forgiving species, before you touch it. Then come the shaping techniques in their own order, pruning to build structure, wiring to set movement, and repotting to manage the roots. Only with years does the deeper aesthetic, patience and the styling of age, become the real study.

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