101 Essential Tips Bonsai: Breaks Down the Subject into 101 Easy-to-Grasp Tips

Nice little book full of advice on choosing and caring for Bonsai. Lors of lovely colour photos of all the popular Bonsai trees. I think this book represents real value. Love it.

Very good

Good enough for an overview without going into a lot of detail on any one thing.

Interesting book

Can't really fault this , its small but with big information & its amazing how much is packed into this. Starting out with Bonsai trees , there are loads of ideas and very handy tips of care . Feeling comfordent to follow this and learn how to make & keep my bonsai healthy. The pictures & photos are stunning , and just help with the knowledge of how to tackle your Bonsai from scratch. You'll save money by doing it yourself & it also looks like a great deal of fun, on a comparison with making an Art piece. You can also from this book learn how to maintain one you have bought & keep it healthy.

Interesting if you are starting out with a Bonsai

Great little book for beginners. Easy to read and understand

A good little book with good info

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Thank you - book was very good but I did not receive plant

Excellent book for bonsai beginners and very nice tips to anybody! Easy reading, highly recommended!

These 101 essential tips are certainly not going to make you master bonsai grower over night, but this book is definitely a must for the beginner. I have purchased or read many DK book in the past and the best asset these books bring to the reader are the marvelous photographs. This book brings that feature along with it to make a very enjoyable experience to the novice bonsai lover. The book itself is small and is akin to holding a Reader's Digest in your hands, albeit just a tad smaller. The pages have excellent photographs or diagrams as the case may be. For example, when you want to learn about wiring the trunk you will see three numbered set of instructions, each with a diagram, and then a completed diagram of a tree with instructional points. In this book you will learn and explore several sections: Starting a Bonsai: You will learn what bonsai is, what to look for in a plant, purchasing plants, rescuing sick plants, culling plants from the wild, growing them from seeds or cuttings, grafting, and air-layering. Design Principles: You will learn how to create balance, the visual effects of root spread, important features of the trunk, viewpoints, size, scale, containers, and what to avoid (types of branches to prune out). Bonsai Styles: You'll learn how to "copy nature" and learn about "upright, informal upright, semicascade, cascade, and slanting styles." In addition to those basic styles you'll learn about broom, literati, root-over-rock, clasped-to-rock, twin-trunk, clump, straight-line, and sinuous styles. You'll also learn about Saikei and group planting. Year-Round Color: You'll learn about seasonal color groups, each listed with suggested species to use. Useful Tools: You'll receive a brief overview and get to see photographs of a selection of pruning, cutting, wiring, potting, and power tools (there are no photographs of these tools). How to Create a Bonsai: You'll learn how to choose containers, you'll see container styles, you'll learn how to prepare a pot, how to prune to shape, clipping & growing, reshaping a plant by wiring, wiring the trunk, branch wiring, and the basics of wiring. Caring for Your Plants: Watering, where to put your plants, root pruning, repotting, trimming, leaf cutting, finger pruning, diseases, pests and systematic spraying. Propagating Bonsai: Seeding, transplanting seedlings, cuttings, potting, air layering, and grafting. Some Suitable Species: Fukien tea, red Japanese maple, bamboo, honeysuckle, silver birch, trident maple, Satsuki azalea, atlas cedar, Elaeagnus, banyan fig, winter jasmine, banyan fig, winter jasmine, honey locust, Scots pine, crab apple, flowering cherry, wisteria, mountain ash, and crape myrtle. You will learn the scientific name of each plant and will learn how to prune them. Display & Arrangement: You will learn both indoor and outdoor displaying and will learn how to exhibit bonsai. Each of these sections is brief, but will greatly assist anyone who thinks they would enjoy bonsai. Chances are, if you order this book, you have already made up your mind. I ordered this book for someone who is very excited about this hobby. If you are expecting to learn everything there is to know about bonsai in this book, you will be disappointed. If you look at this book as a starting point to a lifetime of enjoyment learning about bonsai, you will be thrilled. There is an index in the back of the book if you are looking for something specific. No doubt about it, this little book will be the start of something big for anyone who browses its pages!

Best knowledge gaining book for bonsai begginers. Also the publisher good explained with details image. I appreciate you for such a great explanation.