Bonsai Basics - A Comprehensive Guide to Care and Cultivation: A Pyramid Paperback (Pyramid Gardening (Paperback))

A good primer / introduction to Bonsai. I read this after reading Bonsai 101 Essential Tips. It expands upon all the key parts of getting into bonsai with some nice pictures. After reading this, you should be able to start doing some of the things discussed in the book.

Can't really give good review due to my tree died before I even received my book. To no fault of you. Shipping was fast. You tried to help me, thank you!!!

As a beginner into the field of Bonsai, I found this to be quite informative and easy to follow. I would certainly recommend it.

This book is awesome. It has a lot of useful information without all the "filler" that most other books come with. It comes with great information on the many variaties of all bonsai!

good

It does give some useful information but lacks detail... But the title does say Bonsai basics... The book might be useful for some but I didn't find it very helpful.

This has a lot of information in it that is very helpful if you are new to working with bonsai trees.

This book is very helpful, I learned a lot from it.

nice book

Excellent book for beginner or intermediate bonsai enthusiasts. Detailed information without being overwhelming. Definitely a must for your library if you're interested in learning about or growing bonsai trees.

As a beginner to Bonsai, this is the perfect book to have in your library Also provides a list of suppliers you can order from online.

Having tried and miserably failed to grow any bonsai many years ago, I had thought that would be it - a bonsai free household. Taking courage on both hands, I decided to try again, but this time with a tree that would not need specialist management that as a complete amateur I would clearly not have, as well as with a tree that was already growing well and established. Next notion was to find a guide book for someone like me, a novice to the craft but someone who likes to think they're not utterly moronic and can understand if given the necessary information. A book that would give me sufficient information to keep me interested - I like and perhaps need to know the 'why' of something, the underlying reason and explanation, in order to then maybe fulfil the instruction more fully... This little gem of a book was discovered at a super bargain price, and is clear enough using pictures to show techniques as well as narrative and technical info to keep both the utter newbie and the slightly more advanced beginner engaged. This is a Book of Basics, a starting point from which a person may proceed further if they wish in due course, but it is a Basic book. It shows and tells how to look after an already growing tree, what equipment you will require, and also gives a section on the different trees that can be bought along with how tricky they may be to keep well and healthy. It does not include anything about how to grow from scratch - I might imagine the time required to nurture a tree from a seed could well turn off a beginner and perhaps might involved technical that are rather more in the realm of advanced practitioners... A good starter book with enough detail to keep a novice referring back time and again. Thank you.

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