101 Essential Tips: Bonsai by Harry Tomlinson

101 Essential Tips: Bonsai by Harry Tomlinson

Everything you need to know about bonsai care, maintenance, design, and arrangement. With clear explanations of bonsai and what it is, these 101 easy-to-grasp tips have everything you need to get the results you want.

Build knowledge and confidence with this must-have pocket guide, filled with the essentials you're looking for including pointers and advice on cultivating bonsai plants. Create a sense of balance and serenity in your home with these beautiful miniature trees and bring the ancient practice into the 21st century. Using a step-by-step approach, 101 Essential Tips: Bonsai explains design and style principles, which containers to use, how to cultivate a bonsai plant and more. Learn about the different suitable species, from Japanese red maple to Scots pine, find out how to prune, reshape with wiring, implement Saikei and rock planting, and develop a watering routine to keep your living art healthy.

Whether you want to build on your basic skills or become an expert, 101 Essential Tips: Bonsai is right for you. This pocket guide is chock-full of information to guide you, inspire you, and give you the knowledge and confidence you're looking for.

Harry Tomlinson is a well-known bonsai artist and educator in Europe. For than thirty years, he has studied and practiced the principles of bonsai, and he is an internationally known authority on the subject. He has exhibited bonsai and won awards in both the United Kingdom and Japan, and he has judged the bonsai area at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show in the United Kingdom. The author has been a professional bonsai artist with his own studio and a top bonsai nurseryman for the past thirteen years. Greenwood Bonsai Studio, which he and his wife Christine run, is Britain's largest and most comprehensive bonsai nursery. The Preface was written by Elvin McDonald, Director of Special Programs at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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ISBN 13	9780789496874
ISBN 10	0789496879
Title	101 Essential Tips: Bonsai
Author	Harry Tomlinson
Series	101 Essential Tips
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	DK
Year published	2003-09-08
Number of pages	72
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