The Practical Illustrated Guide to Japanese Gardening and Growing Bonsai: Essential Advice, Step-By-Step Techniques And Projects, Plans, Plant Listings And Over 1500 Photographs And Illustrations
An inspiring and practical guide to two of the most beautiful, and disciplined, horticultural arts.
Great help found what I was looking for. This a tremendous reference, with over 500 pages of small font, with all the photos you’d want–and at the title, it begins by putting Bonsai into the larger context of Asian ornamental gardening, who have been gardening as long as anyone–and continue because of the spiritual dimensions you can derive from it. It ends with chapters detailing of various pruning and design of Bonsai. Most people are intrigued with elegance of Bonsai–but will stay with Bonsai if they gain appreciation for the…
An inspiring and practical guide to two of the most beautiful, and disciplined, horticultural arts.
Great help found what I was looking for. This a tremendous reference, with over 500 pages of small font, with all the photos you’d want–and at the title, it begins by putting Bonsai into the larger context of Asian ornamental gardening, who have been gardening as long as anyone–and continue because of the spiritual dimensions you can derive from it. It ends with chapters detailing of various pruning and design of Bonsai. Most people are intrigued with elegance of Bonsai–but will stay with Bonsai if they gain appreciation for the…