Indoor Bonsai: A Beginner’s Step-By-Step Guide (Crowood Gardening Guides) (Paperback)
Product Description
Indoor bonsai growing is one of the most most popular areas of gardening, bringing a unique atmosphere to any living room. This book is aimed at beginners, and covers all aspects of growing, feeding, pruning, wiring, and shaping, as well as detailing over 40 varieties such as evergreen, deciduous, flowering and fruiting miniature trees, landscapes and displays, terrariums, and gift ideas. Illustrated in colour throughout, it will appeal to everyone interested in this absorbing hobby.
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January 13th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Photos are uninspiring, if not misleading. All the trees pictured resemble twigs thrown between undefined rocks with no thought to shape, movement, intent or design.
Content wise, misdirection and vagueness are the only quality offered. The reader will learn very little, and what they may learn isn’t correct.
You will find much better, thorough, and true information online visiting Bonsai Forums.
Walk away from the monitor. Do NOT buy this book.
January 14th, 2010 at 12:12 am
“Forming the shape of a bonsai can be a very individual subject and therefore it is very difficult for me to convey my ideas to you.”
While the author is undoubtedly a talented bonsai gardener, and may well be a good teacher ‘at the elbow’, his informal jargon may leave the reader puzzled, and his concept of ‘dimensional drawings’ for tree planning is still unclear, despite numerous example drawings.