Bonsai Basics: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing, Training & General Care (Our Garden Variety)

by Christian Pessey (Author), RemySamson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $5.21

  A simple guide for first-time bonsai growers, with easy instructions and over 200 full-color photos and drawings. Covers selecting a hardy specimen; the essentials of pruning, wiring, and aging; keeping your bonsai healthy through watering, feeding, and preventive treatment for pests and diseases. Bonus: a calendar with a seasonal checklist to remind you what to do and when. Learn the many styles of bonsai shaping, important tree forms, including the major single trunk, multiple trunk, and forest groupings, and more. 120 pages (74 in color), 164 b/w illus., 6 1/4 x 10 1/4.