Bonsai Books
Ten Speed Press The Little Book of Bonsai
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£12.59
Tuttle Publishing The Ultimate Bonsai Handbook: The Complete Guide
Book SynopsisWritten by one of Japan's foremost experts, The Ultimate Bonsai Handbook provides a complete overview of every aspect of bonsai gardening. Over 1,000 photos demonstrate each step involved in raising and caring for 70 types of bonsai, supporting the book's "learn by imitation and observation" approach. This detailed book will serve as a timeless reference to cultivating pines, maples, flowering and fruit bearing trees and many other varieties.This practical, comprehensive bonsai guide includes information about: Types of bonsai and how to choose them Basic tree shapes and how to display them Tools, soils, and containers Transplanting, root trimming, watering and fertilizing Propagation, pruning, wiring and support And much more! Trade Review"The book is filled with photos of different types of bonsai trees with information on how to care and prune them." -- Mom Home Guide blog"Banish Bonsai fear with this guide from one of Japan's leading experts. Includes over 1,000 photos, clear instructions and tips on containers, trimming, pruning and propagation." -- Gardens Illustrated Magazine"…this book is a perfect guide for beginners. It has over 1000 photos and features 70 (!!!) different types of bonsai, and for each type it takes you through basic management tips, transplanting, pruning, arranging and wiring and sprout plucking." -- Desire to Inspire blog"
£16.99
Tuttle Publishing Bonsai Master Class
Book SynopsisTake a master class by one of the world's greatest living bonsai masters!Kunio Kobayashi is one the world's most recognized bonsai artists. In this comprehensive book, he presents all the essential techniques needed to plant and maintain the most popular types of bonsaifrom pines, cypress and cedar to flowering trees and other beloved varieties, including grasses. Bonsai Master Class is a book for new fans and longtime aficionados alike, showing you how, with the help of human hands, a bonsai tree can evolve and thrive over centuries. This book provides you with all the vital information you need, including:A thorough explanation of the basic bonsai types and styles, and their characteristicsGuidance in the art of selecting the right plants, pots and spaces to display your bonsaiTips on getting started including purchasing the plants, assembling the necessary tools and choosing the soilsAdvice and techniques for planting, repotting, watering, pruning, shaping, wiring and protecting y
£15.99
Anness Publishing Complete Practical Encyclopedia of Bonsai
Book SynopsisThis 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.
£10.44
Tuttle Publishing Miniature Bonsai: The Complete Guide to
Book SynopsisThis step-by-step bonsai book shows you how to craft super mini bonsai—the smallest form of bonsai!Miniature Bonsai reveals the Japanese art of super-mini bonsai gardening. As rewarding as full-scale bonsai cultivation is, mini bonsai is affordable, straightforward to learn and kind to your busy schedule. It's a complete gardening experience—a plant raised from seed or cutting, carefully potted, grown and maintained over time—a world of green in a pot no bigger than a demitasse or a thimble. From mixing the right growing medium to choosing the perfect pot to displaying your mini bonsai, this Japanese gardening book gives you basic techniques and valuable tips to help you grow miniature: flowering trees pines maples oaks junipers and other varieties of tiny trees and potted plants that are readily available and last for years With Miniature Bonsai you'll learn how to: Select plants that thrive as mini bonsai Work with seeds and small cuttings Match the right plant to the right pot Buy and prepare the growing medium Maintain and drain your miniature bonsai Display and enjoy your prized bonsai plants And much more! A pleasant pastime, a perfect gift, a beautiful addition to spaces small and large—Miniature Bonsai will show you how to make it happen.Trade Review"This book by Terutoshi Iwai shows you step by step how to craft super-mini bonsai, from selection of the plants that work best for this form of bonsai, to the tools and gardening techniques you'll need to know. The directions are simple and easy to follow, and I'll bet you'll want to run outside right now and get started." --Drought Smart Plants blog"This is a great book for anyone like me who is fairly clueless on gardening/plants as it provides complete details on how to successfully create mini bonsai planters. They are so adorable!!!" --Desire to Inspire blog"Comprehensive, profusely illustrated throughout, and thoroughly family gardener friendly in organization and presentation, Miniature Bonsai: The Complete Guide to Super-Mini Bonsai is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Gardening & Horticultural Studies collections." --Midwest Book Review
£13.49
Octopus Publishing Group Bonsai Basics A Comprehensive Guide to Care and
Book SynopsisTailored 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. Table of ContentsIntroduction So What is a Bonsai? Buying a Bonsai How a Tree Works Light Water and Air Life in a Pot Keeping in Trim Tree Directory Appendix While you are Away Outdoor Bonsai in Winter Tools Glossary Index Acknowledgements
£8.54
Running Press The Mini Bonsai Kit
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£9.69
Skyhorse Publishing The Bonsai Book
Book SynopsisThis beautiful, full-color, authoritative book presents, in a practical yet inspirational way, Dan Barton’s expert knowledge and two decades of research on the joy of Bonsai. He gives detailed step-by-step horticultural instructions and fascinating insight into the creative process of Bonsai and provides a genuine understanding of the subject.As well as giving the essential descriptions of stock, equipment, basic care, and training techniques, the book includes new methods of achieving quicker results, a Bonsai calendar showing routing tasks on a month-by-month basis, and the use of modern materials, all of great value to today’s Bonsai enthusiast. Subjects includes: Making a start, Potting up and re-potting Composts, Watering, Feeding and fertilizers Formal upright style Chokkan and derivatives Informal upright style moyogi Slanting style shakan Windswept style fukinagashi Semi-cascade style han-kengai<
£14.64
Dorling Kindersley Ltd Grow Bonsai
Book SynopsisDiscover the secret to successfully growing bonsai. The UK''s leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural handbook to fulfill your every need and seed! Get your gardening gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to grow, maintain and display bonsai successfully from the comfort of your own home and garden.Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Bonsai can help you to choose the perfect bonsai from an extensive directory of varieties, whether that''s a delicate deciduous Japanese maple, a flowering hawthorn, or a faster-growing indoor tree such as a tropical fig. Learn how to plant and care for your tree with simple tips on propagation, pruning, wiring, and repotting, while a handy seasonal guide to bonsai maintenance lets you know what to do and when to do it!Part of the Grow low-price paperback gardening series by DK - the UK''s leading and highly regarded practical gardening publisher - targeting first-time gardeners, Grow B
£9.49
Anness Publishing Create Your Own Bonsai
Book SynopsisAn expert, practical handy-sized guide to growing and caring for miniature trees, with seasonal projects.
£7.59
Anness Publishing Bonsai Complete Practical Book of
Book SynopsisA detailed and newly updated classic manual on bonsai, which trees to choose, and how to train and display them, with projects and examples.
£13.50
Dorling Kindersley Ltd Bonsai
Book SynopsisPeter Warren is an internationally renowned bonsai artist based in London who spent six years training in the traditional manner as an apprentice to the Japanese bonsai master, Kunio Kobayashi. Since completing his studies Peter has travelled far and wide teaching and working with bonsai collectors and enthusiasts across the globe on a mission to take the best of Japanese bonsai techniques and ideas and combine them with western trees and aesthetics. His works are exhibited at the highest level in Japan, North America, and Europe. Peter regularly writes and translates articles for online and print publications including Bonsai Focus and International Bonsai magazines.
£17.09
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. The Complete Book of Bonsai: A Practical Guide to
Book SynopsisCLASSIC STYLES EXPLAINED The origins and development of bonsai are traced, and the underlying principles of this fascinating art clearly explained. The classic styles are listed and illustrated, together with full descriptions of how they were derived from models in the world. Outstanding examples of plantings in all of the various styles are shown. The types of containers are detailed, and the importance of their use for different trees or styles explained. Advice is given on placing and exhibiting your completed bonsai. CLEAR STEP-BY-STEP SEQUENCES There is comprehensive information on how to create a bonsai from a seedling, cutting, or garden center plant. Clear step-by-step sequences take you from the initial raw material through to the finished bonsai, showing the superb results that can be achieved. All the tools and techniques of bonsai are illustrated and explained, and their use described in detail. Maintenance and propagation sections tell you everything you need to know to keep your bonsai beautiful and healthy, or to create your own trees. DETAILS OF MORE THAN 100 SPECIES A photographic catalogue of bonsai trees and shrubs lies at the heart of the book, providing the cultivation and styling details of over 100 different species. Each entry is accompanied by an original full-color photograph of at least one outstanding specimen. This section is supplemented by a further compendium of trees and shrubs that can be grown as bonsai, giving a total of over 300 to choose from. The Complete Book of Bonsai reveals every aspect of the art, with inspirational ideas and practical advice at every turn. Whether you are a beginner who would like to grow just one or two trees, or an experienced enthusiast who wishes to build up a whole collection, it is the essential reference work.Trade Review"This is the most thorough, lavishly...illustrated book any bonsai enthusiast could wish for, written with clarity and inspiration by one of Europe's leading experienced authorities." --Choice "The authors passion for his subject is communicated on every page." --Elle Decor "The photographs alone are worth the purchase price." --The Sacramento (Calif.) BeeTable of ContentsForeword PAGES 6-7 Introduction PAGES 8-11 CHAPTER ONE The Art of Bonsai PAGES 12-43 CHAPTER TWO Creating a Bonsai PAGES 44-89 CHAPTER THREE Bonsai Species Guide PAGES 90-167 CHAPTER FOUR Routine Maintenance PAGES 168-181 CHAPTER FIVE Propagation Techniques PAGES 182-189 CHAPTER SIX Compendium of Trees and Shrubs for Bonsai PAGES 190-217 Glossary of Terms PAGES 218-219 Index PAGES 220-223 Acknowledgments PAGE 224
£30.39
Kodansha America, Inc The Secret Techniques Of Bonsai
Book SynopsisProvides detailed information about growing bonsai from seedlings or beginner plants and advice on shaping, pruning, training, grafting and re-potting trees. This book shows gardeners how to improvise with any readily-accessible bonsai tools, as well as gardening or even simple workshop tools. Japan's leading bonsai experts offer not only the basics for creating perfect bonsai, but also secret techniques the family has developed over generations of careful work and observation. It covers such skills as: taking a cutting for a new bonsai in winter while the plantTrade Review"Incorporating advice from his son, a tree doctor, the author teaches how to produce splendid specimens." -The Washington Post
£23.20
Octopus Publishing Group RHS The Little Book of Bonsai: Master the Art of
Book SynopsisMaster the art of growing miniature trees with this fun, jargon-free guide to bonsai.The Little Book of Bonsai will make you an instant expert in the art of growing miniature trees. It is packed with myth-busting surprises, the first of which is that growing bonsai really isn't as hard as most people think. In fact, they are no more difficult to look after than other pot plants, and easier than many. This book makes the job even easier by breaking down the subject into three clear sections: Getting Started, Ongoing Care and Species Profiles. Jargon-free text and dozens of photographs and diagrams make this the ideal guide for complete novices, as well as a handy companion for more experienced growers. Whether you want to grow from seed or source an established plant, everything you need to know is contained in this guide, which, like bonsai themselves, is small but perfectly formed.
£12.34
Octopus Publishing Group The Bonsai Beginner's Bible: The definitive guide
Book SynopsisA compact guide to everything bonsai in the internationally best-selling bible format.The Japanese and Chinese have been creating bonsai trees for centuries and it is now an internationally popular pastime. This compact and stylish guide will provide everything you need to know to grow bonsai successfully, including shaping with wires, watering, seasonal maintenance, tackling common ailments, choosing the right container, feeding and repotting. A directory of over 90 of the most popular species, illustrated with beautiful photographs, will enable you to find the tree that is right for you.
£12.34
The Crowood Press Ltd Practical Art of Bonsai: Establishing,
Book SynopsisBonsai, the art of growing a tree in miniature, has fascinated and captured the imaginations of people worldwide for hundreds of years. This book will show you how to establish a collection, from first tree acquisitions to quickly creating your own bonsai from ordinary garden material. Step-by-step demonstrations, real examples and helpful advice then ensure you can develop and refine your trees in line with your aspirations. Key coverage includes: both indoor and outdoor bonsai; the best equipment and materials to use; the established bonsai styles and the different approaches required for various tree species; detailed advice on how to keep your tree strong and healthy; guidance on watering, positioning, feeding, pests and problems and an analysis of roots and the process of repotting. There are separate detailed chapters on trunks, branches and twigs with guidance on design considerations; practical styling techniques; bonsai aesthetics, including sources of inspiration, tree styling and pot choice, and finally, detailed case studies, spanning many years, documenting the development of a range of trees.Trade ReviewThis is an ideal book for people in the early stages of their bonsai journey and particularly for bonsaists looking to improve their design skills. -- Jeff Banning, President Scottish Bonsai Assoc * Scottish Bonsai Association *This new book will show you how to establish a collection, from first tree acquisitions to quickly creating your own bonsai from ordinary garden materials. -- Farrand Bloch, Editor Bonsai Focus * Bonsai Focus *
£18.00
Octopus Publishing Group The Happy Bonsai Handbook
Book SynopsisThe ultimate handbook to choosing and caring for your bonsai, from expert Adam McCallion (@notionbonsai).
£15.29
Shanghai Press Forest Penjing: Enjoy the Miniature Landscape by
Book SynopsisThe word penjing can be roughly translated from the Chinese as "potted scenery." It is the original, older form of the art of bonsai. Penjing aims to embody entire natural scenes within individual works. Penjing is sometimes described as Chinese landscape painting in three dimensions. It aims to make viewers feel as though they were really in nature, contemplating the ripples on the surface of a lake or sheltering from the sun in the shade of a tree. It is an art form that is still, yet full of dynamic energy, embodying the natural beauty of trees, stones, and water. The book gives detailed guidance and instruction to those who wish to create a vivid miniature landscape of their own. It also describes the creation process of several outstanding examples of forest penjing, with accompanying photographs from each stage of their “journey” towards completion.Meant for beginners and experts alike, the information and techniques outlined in this book can help sow the seed of a new love for penjing or to refine the craft of a seasoned penjing designer.Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter I The Beauty of Forest Penjing1. Natural and Ecological Beauty2. Poetic BeautyChapter II Techniques of Forest Penjing Production1. Types of Natural Forests2. Material Selection for Forest Penjing3. Forms of Forest Penjing4. Tools and Instruments5. Source Material Processing6. Making Forest Penjing Chapter III Artistic Principals of Forest Penjing1. Differentiating Between Primary and Secondary2. Deciding on Orientation and Angle3. Density Variation4. Leaving Blank Space5. Producing an Echoing Harmony6. Creating Harmonious Competition7. Tempering Hardness with Softness8. Balancing Light and Heavy9. Being Both Bold and Refined10. Balancing Between Concealing and Revealing11. Improving the Creator’s Comprehensive QualityChapter IV Care and Maintenance of Forest Penjing 1. Placement 2. Watering3. Fertilizing4. Pruning5. Shaping6. Repotting7. Pests and DiseasesChapter V Works of Forest Penjing1. Sunlight Slanting Through a Thin Forest (Japanese Maple)2. Spring Running Wild (Flowering Quince)3. Autumn Colors (Japanese Maple)4. Spring Blossoms and Autumn Fruits (Pomegranate)5. Dancing Mountain Forest (Trident Maple)6. Listening to Spring Water (Five-Needle Pine)Chapter VI Display of Forest Penjing1. Outdoor Display2. Indoor Display
£15.26
Kodansha America, Inc Beauty Of Bonsai, The: A Guide To Displaying And
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£24.00
Turner Publicaciones, S.L. The Wind Among the Leaves
Book SynopsisThis volume compiles superb colour photography of one of the most outstanding collections of bonsai in Europe, assembled by collector and author Luis Vallejo, founder of the Luis Vallejo Bonsai Museum in Alcobendas, Spain. This internationally celebrated collection boasts native specimens designed by Vallejo, as well as specimens by Japanese masters such as Masahiko Kimura, Saburo Kato, Hiroshi Takeyama and Shinji Suzuki. Photographs by Fernando Maquieira taken over several years are interspersed with short texts and quotations evoking personal experiences and literary associations. Three series of sketches enhance the volume, providing the most direct expression of the author’s enduring connection with his trees. Housed in a slipcase, The Wind Among the Leaves is a collectable and gorgeous celebration of this ancient and evocative form of horticulture.
£84.80
