Bonsai Tree Care

An inspirational guide from an internationally known Bonsai master. Principles, styles and techniques: more than 90 illustrations, including over 60 specifically commissioned photographs

All too often the attractive bonsai tree bought with such enthusiasm fails to thrive, or even withers and dies after a few short weeks. Bonsai Survival Manual is a one-stop source of vital information to help you avoid those key mistakes and ensure your bonsai survives and stays healthy. From advice on evaluating and selecting plants, to assessing plant health and troubleshooting, here is the clear, comprehensive every bonsai gardener needs for success.

Colin Lewis writes regularly for several international bonsai magazines and is the founder and consulting editor of the US magazine Bonsai. A design consultant, Lewis has spent the last 20 years creating bonsai. He has participated in demonstrations and workshops throughout Europe, and exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show and the Annual Bonsai and Suiseki Exhibition in Osaka, Japan. He lives in the UK

The essential practical guide to a classic art.

Lesniewicz gives readers a short history of the art of bonsai and offers instructions on care, including light, humidity, temperature, watering, and feeding requirements. He includes step-by-step directions on shaping and creating four classic bonsai forms, creating groupings, propagating plants from seed and cuttings, trimming leaves, and pruning roots. The bulk of the book is a listing of 42 bonsai plants arranged alphabetically with detailed instructions on their care. There’s also a list of 26 questions and answers to help gardeners grow these demanding miniature plants. Almost every page of this profusely illustrated and informative guide is in color. George Cohen

“Offers instructions on care, including light, humidity, temperature, watering, and feeding requirements…creating groupings, propagating plants from seed and cuttings, trimming leaves, and pruning roots…[this] profusely illustrated and informative guide is in color.”—Booklist. “An informative, exquisitely illustrated guide to growing tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs as bonsai….Plants for beginners are clearly marked.”—Library Journal.

Brimming with fascinating and practical details and illustrated with 150 beautiful color photographs, Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Bonsai provides everything the plant enthusiast needs to know about this unique and intriguing art.

An informative introduction gives such useful details as plant physiology, the history and philosophy of bonsai, choice of plants, and special tools and products to use in bonsai. The individual entries that follow describe over 125 species to cultivate and offer visual symbols that indicate whether full sun or shade, plentiful or little watering, and indoor or outdoor settings are best for a particular species. Simon & Schuster’s Guide to Bonsai is a fascinating and authoritative reference to this exotic ancient art.

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian