Product Description

Japan's leading bonsai experts offer not only the basics for creating perfect bonsai, but also secret techniques the family has developed over generations of careful work and observation. It covers such skills as: taking a cutting for a new bonsai in winter while the plant still stores its winter nutrients, then wrapping and freezing the cutting until spring, when it will thrive; trimming branches in such a way as to eliminate swelling and scarring; the proper use of tools to ensure perfection...The book provides detailed, lucid information about growing bonsai from seedlings or beginner plants; expert advice on shaping, pruning, training, grafting and re-potting trees; and new techniques for using tools. The Kawasumi family is world-renowned for their bonsai tool design, and in this book they also show gardeners how to improvise with any readily-accessible bonsai tools, as well as gardening or even simple workshop tools. Step-by-step photographs accompany the text, many in full-colour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50248 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

the best bonsai book
This book is a pleasure to read and just as importantly easy to understand. There is information in this text that does not appear in any other books I have read on the subject. The layout of the book is sensible and Mr. Masakuni Kawasumi III makes his and his fathers' work an interesting experience. Domo arigato Mr. Kawasumi.