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Bonsai: Trees and Shrubs A Guide to the Methods of Kyuzo Murata

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Bonsai: Trees and Shrubs A Guide to the Methods of Kyuzo Murata

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE BONSAI: AN INSPIRATIONAL GUIDE. (Hardcover)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:50:32 +0000

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

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The Beginner’s Guide to American Bonsai (Paperback)

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The Beginner’s Guide to American Bonsai (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:48:33 +0000

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Bonsai Survival Manual: An Essential Guide to Buying, Maintaining and Problem Solving (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:47:46 +0000

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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.

About the Author

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

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Miniature Bonsai: A Complete Guide to Tiny Bonsai (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:47:35 +0000

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Growing Bonsai: A Practical Encyclopedia: The essential practical guide to a classic art with techniques, step-by-step projects and over 800 photographs (Hardcover)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:47:30 +0000

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The essential practical guide to a classic art.

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Bonsai In Your Home: An Indoor Grower’s Guide (Paperback)

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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

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“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.

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Indoor Bonsai: A Beginner’s Step-By-Step Guide (Crowood Gardening Guides) (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:42:46 +0000

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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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Simon & Schuster’s Guide To Bonsai (Nature Guide Series) (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:41:44 +0000

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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.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

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Growing Bonsai – Complete Guide to Growing and Shaping (Kindle Edition)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:37:24 +0000

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Growing Bonsai Trees and Shrubs This is a great guide into the intriguing world of bonsai trees. It covers from choosing a style right up to displaying your creation. The guide includes many pictures and is very informative.

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Bonsai Basics – A Comprehensive Guide to Care and Cultivation: A Pyramid Paperback (Pyramid Gardening Paperback) (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:01:41 +0000

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Tailored to meet the needs of the first time bonsai owner, this book is an extensive directory of every major bonsai type.

Bonsai Basics explains in detail all the techniques needed to keep a bonsai alive and in good shape. Clear text and step-by-step illustrations ensure that even the most nervous newcomer can approach looking after bonsai with confidence. Filled with over 120 specially commissioned photographs and illustrations, the New Pyramid Bonsai Basics is an extensive directory of both indoor and outdoor trees and their characteristics.

About the Author

Colin Lewis is a respected bonsai expert who has studied bonsai in Japan, has written a number of books including Bonsai Survival Manual and Practical Bonsai and regularly demonstrates bonsai techniques.

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Growing Bonsai Indoors (Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guide) (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:01:36 +0000

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After the great success of Indoor Bonsai, Brooklyn Botanic Garden has done it again! This is truly a one-stop-shop that provides everything bonsai aficionados need to know about buying, growing, and styling their plants with confidence through sustainable and organic practices. With fully illustrated color photos and line drawings, Growing Bonsai Indoors presents 20 common and unusual tropical and subtropical trees that are best suited for indoor cultivation. With illuminating articles written by some of the top North American bonsai experts including Julian Velasco, curator of the Bonsai Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Pauline Muth, president of the American Bonsai Society—keeping bonsai alive and thriving indoors has never been easier.

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Indoor Bonsai: A Beginner’s Step-By-Step Guide (Crowood Gardening Guides) (Paperback)

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Simon & Schuster’s Guide To Bonsai (Nature Guide Series) (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:14 +0000

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

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Totally Bonsai: A Guide to Growing, Shaping, and Caring for Miniature Trees and Shrubs (Hardcover)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:06 +0000

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Creating your own bonsai is simple, calming, and serene, and best of all, it lets you bring the outdoors inside, even if you dont have a lot of space.
Learn everything you need to know to become accompished at the art of bonsai growing–how to pick a plant, what tools youll need, and how to trim and style your plant. At the heart of the book is a species directory with 10 easy-to-grow plants that are great for getting started, as well as another 40 species that need a little more care.

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Bonsai Basics: A Step-By-Step Guide To Growing, Training & General Care (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:59:59 +0000

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This simple guide for first-time bonsai growers, with easy instructions and more than 200 full-color photos and drawings, covers selecting a hardy specimen; the essentials of pruning, wiring, and aging; and keeping your bonsai healthy. Learn the many styles of bonsai shaping, important tree forms, forest groupings, and more.

Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)

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The Complete Practical Encyclopedia of Bonsai: The essential step-by-step guide to creating, growing, and displaying bonsai with over 800 photographs (Hardcover)

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This book defines and describes the ancient craft of bonsai. The techniques of this precise art form are clearly described, and provides a stunning and fully comprehensive reference that is ideal for the beginner as well as the more experienced bonsai artist.

About the Author

Ken Norman has been growing bonsai for over forty years. He and his wife Ann have an important collection of bonsai permanently displayed at Leonardslee Gardens, West Sussex, England. Ken is a past Chairman of both the Federation of British Bonsai Societies (FOBBS) and the Friends of the National Bonsai Collection (FNBC). He is also a founder member, past Chairman and current President of the Sussex Bonsai Group and has been involved in organizing national and international bonsai conventions. Ken and Ann have been awarded six Gold Medals at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show, including a Gold Medal at Chelsea 2004.

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Bonsai Survival Manual: Tree-by-Tree Guide to Buying, Maintaining, and Problem Solving (Paperback)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:58:34 +0000

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Survival is the key word here, for these delicate plants are difficult to care for. Lewis, founder of Bonsai magazine, has written a guide to buying and maintaining a bonsai. There are instructions on shaping, pruning, repotting, and pests and diseases. Lewis lists 50 popular species, with specific information on growing each tree–maple, bamboo, hornbeam, hackberry, quince, cypress, cotoneaster, cedar, beech, ficus, juniper, myrtle, pine, etc. Four-color photographs throughout, primarily for beginners. George Cohen

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From advice on evaluating and selecting plants, to assessing plant health and troubleshooting, the BONSAI SURVIVAL MANUAL provides the comprehensive information every bonsai gardener needs for success. Includes detailed horticultural profiles of 50 popular commercial varieties, with at-a-glance information on their specific requirements.

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The Secret Techniques of Bonsai: A Guide to Starting, Raising, and Shaping Bonsai (Hardcover)

The Bonsai Tree Care — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:58:20 +0000

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“Incorporating advice from his son, a tree doctor, the author teaches how to produce splendid specimens.” — The Washington Post

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