A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing and Displaying Bonsai [What is a bonsai? -- Bonsai: art or horticulture? -- Size and age -- Root to leaf -- How buds work -- Buying bonsai -- Garden centre stock -- Propagation from seed -- Cuttings -- Air layers -- Growing your own -- Reducing taller trees -- Tools and wire -- Soils -- Pots -- The classic bonsai styles -- Repotting and root pruning -- Shaping with wire -- Branch pruning -- Maintenance pruning -- Summer pinching -- Leaf pruning -- First steps: cuttings -- First steps: seedlings -- Garden centre plants: cotoneaster -- Garden centre plants: cedar -- Garden shrub: juniper -- Home-grown stock: siberian elm -- Landscape plant: scots pine -- Jins -- Sharis -- Refining the image -- Broom style zelko

Colin Lewis; Neil Sutherland; Sally Strugell, David Gibbon, Neil Sutherland, Tim Heyward, gerald hughes, Ruth Arthur, Sally Connolly, Neil Randles, Karen Staff, Jonathan Tucker,

ISBN 10: 1858330459 / ISBN 13: 9781858330457

Editore: Coombe Books, Godalming, Surrey, England, 1993, 1993

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124 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 28 cm ; ISBN 9781858330457, 1858330459 ; OCLC 824724014 ; color photogrpahic boards in similar color dustjacket ; Contents: What is a bonsai? -- Bonsai: art or horticulture? -- Size and age -- Root to leaf -- How buds work -- Buying bonsai -- Garden centre stock -- Propagation from seed -- Cuttings -- Air layers -- Growing your own -- Reducing taller trees -- Tools and wire -- Soils -- Pots -- The classic bonsai styles -- Repotting and root pruning -- Shaping with wire -- Branch pruning -- Maintenance pruning -- Summer pinching -- Leaf pruning -- First steps: cuttings -- First steps: seedlings -- Garden centre plants: cotoneaster -- Garden centre plants: cedar -- Garden shrub: juniper -- Home-grown stock: siberian elm -- Landscape plant: scots pine -- Jins -- Sharis -- Refining the image -- Broom style zelkova -- Informal upright maple -- Beech group -- Forest on a slab -- Raft planting -- Shohin, exposed root style -- Root over rock -- Wrap-arounds -- Thread grafting -- Watering and feeding -- Siting your bonsai -- Preparing for display -- Winter protection -- Pests and diseases -- The bonsai year: spring; summer; autumn; winter -- Where to learn more ; tear on front of dustjacket, else FINE/G.

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• Titolo: A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing and Displaying Bonsai [What is a bonsai? -- Bonsai: art or horticulture? -- Size and age -- Root to leaf -- How buds work -- Buying bonsai -- Garden centre stock -- Propagation from seed -- Cuttings -- Air layers -- Growing your own -- Reducing taller trees -- Tools and wire -- Soils -- Pots -- The classic bonsai styles -- Repotting and root pruning -- Shaping with wire -- Branch pruning -- Maintenance pruning -- Summer pinching -- Leaf pruning -- First steps: ...
• Editore: Coombe Books, Godalming, Surrey, England, 1993
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1858330459
• ISBN 13: 9781858330457
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: Book