- ISBN13: 9781844033508
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Product Description
Creating beautiful, healthy bonsai is a wonderful skill that anyone can learn, with a little time, patience, and this all-inclusive manual. With color photos and drawings to illustrate the points, it introduces all the cultivation techniques; offers expert advice on location, soil types, watering, and pest control; and provides intricate instruction on training the bonsai–including pruning, wiring and stretching it. An A-to-Z guide of all the popular species showca… More >>
Indoor Bonsai for Beginners: Selection Care Training
I would recommend this book to every first time bonsai owner. I’m sure that if my current trees could speak, they would thank me for reading this book prior to making my bonsai selection. My first bonsai tree did not fair so well. It appears I did everything wrong the first time around. First I selected an out door tree for an indoor garden. I did not know when to trim the tree or how to fertilize. I thought all bonsai needed the same care guidelines. I was very wrong and the tree died.
I love the section on individual tree care. Now when I find a bonsai that I love, I just pull out my copy of Indoor Bonsai for Beginners: Selection, Care, Training, and find out if the tree will thrive in the location I have available. If not, I do the tree a favor and leave it for someone who has the proper location.
Thanks to this book I know which trees will fair well in an office window with only the morning sun. I know to have a drip tray, sprayer and other supplies waiting for the trees to arrive. I know to find out when the bonsai was last transplanted and fertilized. This book is definitely my Bonsai Trees’ best friend and a MUST READ for anyone thinking about owning a bonsai. Just do your tree a favor and read it before you make your tree selection. Rating: 5 / 5
As stated in the title this book is about indoor bonsai, or more precisely how to grow and maintain tropical bonsai indoors. It doesn’t contain much info on non tropical species, which are more appropriate to growing outdoors. There are many beautiful pictures that will inspire the beginning bonsai artist to create masterpieces of their own. Highly recommended beginners book. Rating: 4 / 5
This is an excelent book about indoor bonsai. I’ve been buying books looking for tips in selection,care and training of indoor bonsais but most of the authors insist that this is an outdoor activity. In Indoor Bonsai for Beginners I found helpful information and a lot of pictures and drawings Rating: 5 / 5
This is an excellent book for anyone just getting interested in Bonsai. It gives you just enough information to make informed decisions – without overwhelming you. Rating: 5 / 5
Now I’m not going to write this review saying that i am an expert in bonsai. I have only been practicing it for a few years. In my opinion i think bonsai is best enjoyed out side. But i still read this book with an open mind.
Having said that, i don’t feel i have come away with any new knowledge, ideas or inspiration after reading this book. The first half of the book is filled with with growing and maintenance techniques which is an ok read but after that its just information on a lot of different and some very random species. I say random because its everything from Holly to rosemary. Yes in a way you could attempt to bonsai anything, but it just doesn’t seem right to me.
Most of the photos of the authors are of very young and heavily wired bonsai and without being rude lack imagination.
However if you are looking at buying your first bonsai and pick one of the many species from this book then it should give you some easy to follow guidelines on how to look after it throughout the seasons. Rating: 2 / 5