Bonsai Basics: A Step-By-Step Guide To Growing,...

Aside from breaking down the basic bonsai care and maintenance techniques, it provides step-by-step instructions to help growers perform the actions properly and accurately. It also discusses how to style a bonsai, which pot to use, and which tree species suit specific individuals.

Bonsai Basics: A Step-By-Step Guide To Growing,...

Meant for beginners, this book is filled with a comprehensive guide on how to water, wire, prune, repot, fertilize, and treat bonsai trees. It also contains a directory of over 180 popular bonsai tree species with full-color images, descriptions, and basic care requirements.

Beautifully photographed images accompany every guide to help readers visualize the actions and results. It provides information on selecting, cultivating, maintaining, displaying, and treating bonsai.

Exploring the great indoors? Some bonsai, including jade, Fukien tea, and ficus, are better suited to living inside than others. This beginner-friendly guide highlights our favorite species and outlines how to take care of a bonsai tree indoors.

Another book by author Akira Kobayashi. In this beginners guide, he gives instructions on finding the suitable trees for Bonsai and dedicates a large section of the book in describing the characteristics of the most common bonsai plants, mentioning about 54 types of bonsai plants and their characteristics. The book also discusses animal and plant pests, environmental problems, diseases, injuries, and wounds associated with Bonsai.

This book by Ken Nakamura draws on a selection of bonsai growing techniques that are well tested. The book gives a brief history of Bonsai, provides instructions in cultivating the perfect growing environment, lists the equipment necessary for growing one, and gives a step-by-step guide on some of the best trimming and pruning techniques.

Caring for a bonsai tree might seem intimidating at first. Here are a few tips to show you how to take care of a bonsai tree with ease. We also created a handy guide featuring quick tips for easy reference.

Over centuries of practice, the Japanese bonsai aesthetic has encoded some important techniques and design guidelines. Like the aesthetic rules that govern, for example, Western common practice period music, bonsai's guidelines help practitioners work within an established tradition with some assurance of success. Simply following the guidelines alone will not guarantee a successful result. Nevertheless, these design rules can rarely be broken without reducing the impact of the bonsai specimen. Some key principles in bonsai aesthetics include:

A variety of informal containers may house the bonsai during its development, and even trees that have been formally planted in a bonsai pot may be returned to growing boxes from time to time. A large growing box can house several bonsai and provide a great volume of soil per tree to encourage root growth. A training box will have a single specimen, and a smaller volume of soil that helps condition the bonsai to the eventual size and shape of the formal bonsai container. There are no aesthetic guidelines for these development containers, and they may be of any material, size, and shape that suit the grower.

For bonsai being shown formally in their completed state, pot shape, color, and size are chosen to complement the tree as a picture frame is chosen to complement a painting. In general, containers with straight sides and sharp corners are used for formally shaped plants, while oval or round containers are used for plants with informal designs. Many aesthetic guidelines affect the selection of pot finish and color. For example, evergreen bonsai are often placed in unglazed pots, while deciduous trees usually appear in glazed pots. Pots are also distinguished by their size. The overall design of the bonsai tree, the thickness of its trunk, and its height are considered when determining the size of a suitable pot. 041b061a72