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1 comments about Bonsai: A Kodansha Postcard Book (Kodansha Postcard Books).

1. Office cubicles are Dilbert Hell, but even hell can be a little more bearable with a pretty postcard tacked to the wall. Though you'll have difficulty parting with these cards, you should send them to your friends' work addresses. They make a pleasant surprise.

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No comments about The Art of Indoor Bonsai: Cultivating Tropical, Sub-Tropical, and Tender Bonsai.

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No comments about Junipers: Growing & Styling Juniper Bonsai (Bonsai Today Masters').

1 comments about Practical Bonsai: Their Care, Cultivation and Training.

1. Being brand new to the art, I wanted a working background guide to quickly provide a foundational knowledge from which to build. This book goes well beyond! Well illustrated with pruning, training, propagating techniques, and traditional styles, it provided a superb basis for getting started. The only thing I wish it would have included was a section on "before and after" (to guide one on where to start in the initial pruning process, or "how to select a plant and how to indetify the style that might best fit a particular shaped plant". If your just beginning, this would be a great first step!

1 comments about Masters' Book of Bonsai.

1. This book contains much information of how to care for your bonsai. Some well known bonsai are use throught the text. It contains good illustratuins covering most important topics and an excellent Appendix with chart of activities and timing of procedures for most species. The Black and white photographs are not to good.

2 comments about Bonsai Miniatures: Quick and Easy.

1. Bonsai Miniatures offers a refreshing alternative to the fairly large bonsai that often require two people to move them and an equally large porch or patio on which to grow them. The miniature bonsai (some as small as two inches in height) depicted in Zeko Nakamura's book open a whole world of possibility to those budding bonsai aficionados who have only a small deck on which to grow plants and who don't want to launch into a major undertaking.

   Aside from creating miniature bonsai out of the standard bonsai plants such as cypress and Japanese maple, Nakamura suggests looking at other possibilities: a common houseplant, a garden perennial or even a dandelion. In this 62-page book, just enough information is provided to successfully create miniature bonsai, yet without overwhelming the reader with a lot of technical detail; the diagrams are equally sufficient. Finally, the numerous color photos (31 in all) found throughout serve as inspiration




2. Easy for a new Bonsai enthusiast to go thru this and see how things are done. Pictures are wonderful, and information is easy to understand. Great size, too.

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