Simon & Schuster'S Guide To BonsaiBrimming with fascinating and practical details and illustrated with 150 beautiful color photographs, "Simon & Schuster's Guide to Bonsai" provides everything the plant enthusiast needs to know about this unique and intriguing art. An informative introduction gives such useful details as plant physiology, the history and philosophy of bonsai, choice of plants, and special tools and products to use in bonsai. The individual entries that follow describe over 125 species to cultivate and offer visual symbols that indicate whether full sun or shade, plentiful or little watering, and indoor or outdoor settings are best for a particular species. "Simon & Schuster's Guide to Bonsai" is a fascinating and authoritative reference to this exotic ancient art. |
Common terms and phrases
Acer buergerianum aerial allow the soil Asia bonsai branches from spring buds Carry out wiring coarse sand color conifers corymbs crown cultivars dark green days from early days from spring deciduous dioecious drupes dry out completely early spring entry equivalent material Europe evergreen Feeding Every 20-30 Feeding Once fertilizer fruits full sun genus growing season growth hornbeam indoors Initial pruning Japan Japanese late spring late summer leaves midsummer months after repotting needles Once a month oval panicles peat Pinus position the roots Position the trunk protecting the bark Pruning and wiring Pseudocydonia Pseudolarix racemes reducing repotting and selective Repotting Every 2-3 root system sand or equivalent selective reduction shape Shorten the shoots shrub small tree soil and 30 soil to dry species specimens spray the foliage spring to autumn spring to summer style sunlight trees or shrubs tropical trunk and branches Tsuga wiring from spring wiring Pruning