Introduction to Bonsai: The Complete Illustrated Guide for Beginners (with Monthly Growth Schedules and over 2000 Diagrams and Illustrations)
Go beneath the soil with this hand-drawn guide!

This book is sure to become your go-to reference for all things bonsai. Beautifully illustrated with details and views a camera simply can't show, Introduction to Bonsai offers a unique and insightful look at these mini ecosystems.

This complete guide contains all the information you need to create and maintain your own bonsai:
  • Handy monthly bonsai maintenance schedules detail proper watering, pruning, wiring, transplanting and other upkeep activities throughout the year
  • Leaves, fruits, flowers, and processes are presented up-close to help make growing and upkeep as successful and simple as possible
  • Diagrams show where, how much, and in what direction pruning, wiring, watering and other maintenance should be performed
  • Clear, detailed illustrations of every part of the bonsai ensure that you'll see everything you need to see, exactly as you need to see it—making this a great resource for collectors and enthusiasts at all levels

Learn the specific ways to care for more than 40 types of popular bonsai trees, including:
  • Flowering Bonsai—cherry blossom, dogwood, azalea and lilac
  • Fruiting Bonsai—crab apple, persimmon, Chinese quince and burning bush
  • Coniferous and Deciduous Bonsai—maple, Japanese beech, black pine and salt cedar

Prepared by the editors of Japan's popular Bonsai Sekai (Bonsai World) magazine,this handbook is designed to make care and maintenance easy for bonsai beginners—from seeds to root systems and from basic watering to your first transplant.
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Introduction to Bonsai: The Complete Illustrated Guide for Beginners (with Monthly Growth Schedules and over 2000 Diagrams and Illustrations)
Go beneath the soil with this hand-drawn guide!

This book is sure to become your go-to reference for all things bonsai. Beautifully illustrated with details and views a camera simply can't show, Introduction to Bonsai offers a unique and insightful look at these mini ecosystems.

This complete guide contains all the information you need to create and maintain your own bonsai:
  • Handy monthly bonsai maintenance schedules detail proper watering, pruning, wiring, transplanting and other upkeep activities throughout the year
  • Leaves, fruits, flowers, and processes are presented up-close to help make growing and upkeep as successful and simple as possible
  • Diagrams show where, how much, and in what direction pruning, wiring, watering and other maintenance should be performed
  • Clear, detailed illustrations of every part of the bonsai ensure that you'll see everything you need to see, exactly as you need to see it—making this a great resource for collectors and enthusiasts at all levels

Learn the specific ways to care for more than 40 types of popular bonsai trees, including:
  • Flowering Bonsai—cherry blossom, dogwood, azalea and lilac
  • Fruiting Bonsai—crab apple, persimmon, Chinese quince and burning bush
  • Coniferous and Deciduous Bonsai—maple, Japanese beech, black pine and salt cedar

Prepared by the editors of Japan's popular Bonsai Sekai (Bonsai World) magazine,this handbook is designed to make care and maintenance easy for bonsai beginners—from seeds to root systems and from basic watering to your first transplant.
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Introduction to Bonsai: The Complete Illustrated Guide for Beginners (with Monthly Growth Schedules and over 2000 Diagrams and Illustrations)

Introduction to Bonsai: The Complete Illustrated Guide for Beginners (with Monthly Growth Schedules and over 2000 Diagrams and Illustrations)

Introduction to Bonsai: The Complete Illustrated Guide for Beginners (with Monthly Growth Schedules and over 2000 Diagrams and Illustrations)

Introduction to Bonsai: The Complete Illustrated Guide for Beginners (with Monthly Growth Schedules and over 2000 Diagrams and Illustrations)

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Go beneath the soil with this hand-drawn guide!

This book is sure to become your go-to reference for all things bonsai. Beautifully illustrated with details and views a camera simply can't show, Introduction to Bonsai offers a unique and insightful look at these mini ecosystems.

This complete guide contains all the information you need to create and maintain your own bonsai:
  • Handy monthly bonsai maintenance schedules detail proper watering, pruning, wiring, transplanting and other upkeep activities throughout the year
  • Leaves, fruits, flowers, and processes are presented up-close to help make growing and upkeep as successful and simple as possible
  • Diagrams show where, how much, and in what direction pruning, wiring, watering and other maintenance should be performed
  • Clear, detailed illustrations of every part of the bonsai ensure that you'll see everything you need to see, exactly as you need to see it—making this a great resource for collectors and enthusiasts at all levels

Learn the specific ways to care for more than 40 types of popular bonsai trees, including:
  • Flowering Bonsai—cherry blossom, dogwood, azalea and lilac
  • Fruiting Bonsai—crab apple, persimmon, Chinese quince and burning bush
  • Coniferous and Deciduous Bonsai—maple, Japanese beech, black pine and salt cedar

Prepared by the editors of Japan's popular Bonsai Sekai (Bonsai World) magazine,this handbook is designed to make care and maintenance easy for bonsai beginners—from seeds to root systems and from basic watering to your first transplant.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9784805315446
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 01/04/2022
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bonsai Sekai (Bonsai World) is the leading Japanese magazine for bonsai lovers, first published in 1970. Over the years, it has brought together practitioners from all over the world, sharing techniques, announcing exhibitions and fostering a love of bonsai.

Kyosuke Gun has been a botanical illustrator and bonsai practitioner for nearly fifty years, growing approximately 450 species and nearly 5000 plants over five decades of raising bonsai.

Table of Contents

The Power of Small Bonsai 4

How to Appreciate Bonsai 7

Many Ways to Enjoy 8

Types of Bonsai 10

Basic Tree Forms 12

Tools to Have on Hand 14

How Bonsai Use Air and Soil 16

Techniques & Supplemental Materials 18

Root Laying 18

Air Layering 19

Seedlings 20

Cuttings 21

Types of Bonsai Pots 22

Planting in a Bonsai Pot 24

Sharing Our Lives with Bonsai 25

January 26

February 29

March 33

April 37

May 40

June 42

July 44

August 46

September 49

October 52

November 54

December 57

How to Care for Flowering Bonsai 59

Plum 60

Siberian Peashrub 63

Japanese Quince 64

Fuji Cherry 66

Japanese Andromeda 68

Japanese Rose 70

Chinese Quince 72

Reeve's Spiraea 74

Azalea Rhododendron 76

Stachyurus Praecox 78

Kousa Dogwood 80

Pomegranate 82

Crepe-Myrtle 84

Star Magnolia 86

Lilac 88

Tosamizuki 90

How to Care for Fruiting Bonsai 91

Cape Jasmine 92

Linden Arrowwood 94

Oriental Bittersweet 96

Crabapple 98

Hamilton's Spindletree 100

Diamond Leaf Persimmon 102

Thorny Olive 104

Jolcham Oak 106

Autumn Olive 108

Japanese Barberry 110

Queen Coralbead 112

Ginkgo 114

Chinese Quince 116

Japanese Hawthorn 118

Firethorn 120

Kadsura Vine 122

Japanese Winterberry 124

Burning Bush 127

Toringo Crabapple 130

How to Care for Leafy Bonsai 133

Trident Maple 134

Japanese Maple 138

Japanese Zelkova 140

Ligistrum Obtusifolius 142

Korean Hornbeam 144

Chinese Tamarisk 146

Spicewood 148

Japanese Beech 150

How to Care for Conifers 151

Japanese Black Pine 152

Japanese White Pine 156

Temple Juniper 160

Japanese Cedar 164

Chinese Juniper 166

Pruning, Shaping & Shaving Bonsai 169

Why Do We Prune Bonsai? 170

Why Do We Bend and Shape Bonsai? 171

Why Do We Shave Bark from Bonsai? 172

Maintaining Your Bonsai's Health 173

How to Weed and Kill Pests and Germs 174

The Kinds of Fertilizers, and How to Use Them 175

Glossary of Bonsai Terms 176

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