Product Description

From advice on evaluating and selecting plants, to assessing plant health, and troubleshooting, this comprehensive guide is any readers step-by-step entry into this ancient and beautiful living art. Covers over 50 varieties of plants and trees which can be cultivated into captivating miniatures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #383822 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From Booklist
Survival is the key word here, for these delicate plants are difficult to care for. Lewis, founder of Bonsai magazine, has written a guide to buying and maintaining a bonsai. There are instructions on shaping, pruning, repotting, and pests and diseases. Lewis lists 50 popular species, with specific information on growing each tree--maple, bamboo, hornbeam, hackberry, quince, cypress, cotoneaster, cedar, beech, ficus, juniper, myrtle, pine, etc. Four-color photographs throughout, primarily for beginners. George Cohen

Ingram
From advice on evaluating and selecting plants, to assessing plant health and troubleshooting, the BONSAI SURVIVAL MANUAL provides the comprehensive information every bonsai gardener needs for success. Includes detailed horticultural profiles of 50 popular commercial varieties, with at-a-glance information on their specific requirements.

From the Back Cover
Grow attractive bonsai and keep them healthy with this "one-stop" source of vital information. From advice on evaluating and selecting plants, to assessing plant health and troubleshooting, the Bonsai Survival Manual provides the comprehensive information every bonsai gardener needs for success. -- Advice on selecting suitable species, feeding, watering, and providing the proper temperature -- Step-by-step guidance on keeping your miniature tree in shape and avoiding common bonsai ailments -- Detailed horticultural profiles of 50 popular commercial varieties, with at-a-glance information on their specific requirements

Customer Reviews

Sparse
No real indepth information. It does have a lot of different trees listed but don't rely on this to be your only book on the subject.

Very helpful
Bought this book after my first tree died, thinking maybe another book may give me a better chance of sucess. This book is very inforfmationally and easy to follow. The information on individual tree is very helpful in picking trees to grow.