"Welcome to my Bonsai Garden"
Home -
Care -
Supplies -
Trees -
Contact Us
Bonsai Books
The Art of Bonsai Booklet
Price: $4.75
Our own noted bonsai artist and retailer/grower of thousands of trees, Rod Skowronek, recommends this guide where you will find the information and illustrations easy to read and understand. Paperback of 20 pages (5.5" x 8.5").
Keep Your Bonsai Alive & Well
Price: $12.95
Noted bonsai artist Herb Gustafson provides the answers to commonly asked care and maintenance questions. Explore the different needs of both indoor and outdoor bonsai. Details on watering, potting, seasonal care, pest control, and diseases. Seasonal checklists for tasks to be done at specific times during the year. This book covers 150 species from Abelia to Ziziphhus. Information is given on soil requirements, pruning techniques, sunlight tolerance, along with added information for how to handle bonsai emergency situations. This book has 96 fullcolor pages (6.25" x 10.25").
Indoor Bonsai
Price: $16.95
Written especially for the vast varieties of miniature trees you can grow indoors. With color photos of spectacular examples. This book has 208 pages; 84 in color (4.75" x 7.5").
"Excellent guide. . . with specifics on individual plants." N.. Times
Bonsai Basics
Price: $12.95
A step-by-step guide to growing, training and general care. A simple guide for the first-time bonsai growers, with easy instructions and over 200 full-color photos and drawings. Covers a selection of specimens, pruning, wiring, aging, feeding, and prevention of pests and diseases. Bonus: A calendar with a seasonal checklist to remind you of what to do and when. Designed for the beginner, this is the starter book every newcomer to bonsai will want to have. 120 pages; 74 in color; 164 b/w illustrations (6.25" x 10.25")
Bonsai
Price: $7.95
Includes both Japanese and Chinese techniques for bonsai training. Covers potting, feeding, artificial aging, thickening of trunks and branches, wire training, and complete care and maitenance. This book is 64 pages; 42 in color (5.5" x 8.5")
By Peter D. Adams, Ward Lock, Ltd.
Excellent book for beginners covers the basics plus:
- The basic bonsai styles and how to achieve them
- Detailed guidance on obtaining plant material
- Clear explanation of bonsai process
- Advice on care and maintenance
- Useful guide to growing more popular species
- Step by step illustrations showing every technique
This book is 96 pages; 21 in color (7" x 9.5")