The Bonsai Handbook

This comprehensive guide presents a wide range of ideas and techniques to help explore the art of bonsai. While an excellent introduction for beginners, offering clear advice on how to achieve good results with only a woody plant, a pot and some basic tools, it also contains valuable information for experienced bonsai growers.

The author begins with an overview of the anatomy and growth of bonsai trees, and follows with chapters on watering, feeding, pruning, potting and wiring, as well as the tools and methods used. The book offers guidance on every aspect of buying and caring for bonsai, with more than 200 color photos, plus step-by-step instructional drawings. An entire chapter is devoted to propagation, covering how to grow bonsai from seeds, cuttings and plants, and the book concludes with a directory that outlines care requirements for 25 popular bonsai species.

Softcover, 8 1/2" × 11", 160 pages, 2015.