Bonsai Techniques, Volume 1

Air-layering apex apply arrangement azalea back branch bark base bend blood-meal Bonsai stage buds BUNJIN California juniper cascade CHANGING SOIL color conifers cottonseed meal cut back deciduous bonsai deciduous trees defoliating dormant double trunk drainage hole fertilizer Figure foliage forest style front branch Ginkgo grafting group planting growing growth height inches insecticide Japanese black pine Keep large branch leaves Lecture-demonstration lower branches Montezuma cypress month moss natural needles peeled Photo taken planted in TOKONAME pomegranate primary branches Pyracantha raft style remove rock rootage roots screen season secondary branch Select seven tree shape SHARI shoots side slanted trunk small branches soil changed soil mixture Soil Mulch Sand SOJU species sphagnum moss spray spring sprout Straight trunk surface tallest tree Tamarix tap roots tatami trained transplanting Trimming and pruning trunk or twin trunk style twigs twin tree weather windswept wire Wisteria X X X