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Learn about your bonsai specie:
This is a very good book to learn about individual species. This book has profiles 50 species of bonsais. It includes out door bonsais and indoor bonsais. Each profile is two pages. It includes one or two pictures, an older bonsai and a younger bonsai. It gives a description of the bonsai, which includes the history and where it is grown, along with a lot of helpful information on growing and caring for each bonsai. It has a chart for each bonsai with includes light, water, temperature, soil and a few other things. The information about each bonsai is very interesting and helpful. Many bonsai books don't give you much information on individual species and their needs. It is very important to know what a bonsai needs before you decide on a bonsai. You need to know if you can meet the needs of a bonsai. At the beginning of the book there is general information on bonsais, buying, care, plus trimming, pruning, repotting, root pruning, shaping with wire etc. This is good information and the pictures are detail, but it is not exceptional. There are better books on the care and training of bonsais. But the book is well worth getting for the information it gives you on the individual bonsais.
Excellent information on individual species:
The book is mainly geared for somebody who purchased a Bonsai and is wanting to maintain it and maybe make it a little better. It doesn't have much information on how to train and style a bonsai. The information on how to care for all the different kinds of trees is more than worth the price of the book. I find myself referring back to this book frequently.
Just the ticket...:
This book is just the right thing to get me started in this Bonsai process. It has complete all around knowledge. I needed a general book to help me but a complete one. This fits the bill.
Excellent Primer - Basics but lacks detail:
This is an excellent basics book and would rate it 5 stars if that is what you are looking for. I give it 4 stars because it gives one enough information to be dangerous but not enough to certain . Example: Using fungicides and pesticides. Certain trees Maples for instance, are very sensitive and be harmed using chemicals they recommend are safe for most trees. Define most!! An excellent starter basics book just not the only book one should use in my view.
A good reference for new bonsai gardeners:
I am new to bonsai and really needed some information regarding the Fulkien Tea tree that I bought at the Big E in Mass. This book is in easy to read, outline form and includes the care for most bonsai... indoor and outdoor. It gives specific instructions for repotting, trimming, fertilizing and treating insect problems. The book is amazingly thorough. My only complaint is that I also bought a so-called money tree and it is not included in this book at all. This was not a huge problem as there are internet sites that talk about money trees. All in all I found this to be quite a valuable book and my tea tree seems to be doing quite well.
| Author: | Colin Lewis | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 635.9772 | | EAN: | 9780882668536 | | ISBN: | 0882668536 | | Number Of Pages: | 160 | | Publication Date: | 1996-01-10 |
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