From Booklist
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


From Book News, Inc.
Translation of a German work (1991, Verlag BCH, Heidelberg). Presents both the technical and the aesthetic elements of creating and caring for miniaturized plants. Fully illustrated with color photos. 8.5x12" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Book Description
“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.



Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Presents both the technical and the aesthetic elements of creating and caring for miniaturized plants."—Reference & Research Book News. "...offers instructions on care, including light, humidity, temperature, watering, and feeding requirements....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....Almost every page of this profusely illustrated and informative guide is in color."—Booklist. 208 pages (all in color), 8 1/4 X 11 5/8.

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