The living art of bonsai
Subtitle: principles & techniques of cultivation & propagation
By: Professor Amy Liang
Edition: Paperback edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781454912217
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Bonsai
Description: Professor Amy Liang, a world-renowned bonsai artist and lecturer, offers a practical guide to the fine art of cultivating bonsai. This extravagantly produced volume, filled with hundreds upon hundreds of lavish full-color photographs, showcases the very best and most beautiful specimens from her collection. Liang surveys the history of bonsai in its many schools and styles, and offers techniques and highly detailed instructions for those who want to shape and nurture their own trees.
Notes: Includes index.

Previously published: 2005.
Table of contents: title: Preface by the president of Seattle Pacific University; title: Chinese publisher's preface; title: Author's preface; title: Bonsai appreciation; title: Bonsai, potted landscapes, and life; title: History of bonsai; title: Chinese rock planting; title: The classifications of bonsai; title: Basic styles of bonsai; title: Group planting; title: Plant physiology; title: Guidelines for bonsai cultivation; title: How to choose tree materials; title: Propagation of bonsai stock; title: Bonsai creation; title: Training and dwarfing of bonsai; title: Transplanting and repotting techniques; title: The creation of jinns and sharies; title: Choosing the pot; title: Miniature bonsai; title: Preparation for bonsai display; title: A guide for bonsai appreciation.