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Books About Bonsai Trees

Beginning Bonsai: The Gentle Art of Miniature Tree Growing Larry and Shirley Student

This book is one of the best for beginner bonsai growers and is authored by Northeast Bonsai Association charter members. Everything you need from buying your first bonsai to creating Your Own bonsai landscape is here. There are also important tips on how to find the right bonsai style, how and when to prune or pinch and anticipate potential problems. This is a practical book to have, especially if you’re still unsure about handling bonsai.

The Art of Bonsai: Creation, Care and Enjoyment Yuji Yoshimura with Giovanna Halford

This book is in paperback and discusses the beginnings and nature of bonsai as an ancestral tradition. You get expert advice and lessons from Yoshimura, who travels the world to teach about bonsai and from Halford, a pupil of Yoshimura’s. 

Together, they bring together the eastern and western aspects of bonsai growing in an easy-to-read book that is filled with practical answers to the most common bonsai problems. Incidentally, Yoshimura owns the Kofu-en, a bonsai nursery near Tokyo, which is frequented by international admirers.

Bonsai Survival Manual: Tree-by-Tree Guide to Buying, Maintaining and Problem Solving Colin Lewis

Authored by the founder of Bonsai Magazine, this book will give you the most detailed advice on selecting plants for bonsai, assessing bonsai health and yes, ensuring its survival. From buying to shaping, from pruning to repotting to handling common pests and diseases, this book also contains specific information for each bonsai featured in its pages. Also with photographs, a good book to have if you’re a beginner.

Bonsai 101 Essential Tips Harry Tomlinson

The best 101 tips for bonsai growing and care are what you’ll get from this book, authored by one of the leading bonsai instructors in Europe. The tips are practical, easy to understand and can provide the most comprehensive answers to the common (and uncommon) bonsai questions.

Bonsai Landscapes Peter D. Adams If you have enough bonsai experience, then you’re ready to move on to the next level by creating landscapes for your bonsai. The topics are illustrated with photographs and line drawings and the whole book has easy to follow instructions for 13 styles of landscapes. Great if you plan to create miniature worlds in a small pot.

Creating Bonsai Landscapes Su Chin Ee

This book presents bonsai as a lifelong project, with clear advice on selection, planting, positioning and nurturing. The book is illustrated with color photographs that will help you along as you slowly Build Your bonsai landscape.

My lemon tree wont grow.?

I have 2 miniature lemon trees (young) that sit in pots out the front. One grows fine, but the other is still the same size as when we planted it. I think it’s the pot but I am not sure. Some one please help me!!!

Citrus plants can occasionally (regularly for some of us!) be fickle.

Assuming that they get good light – as one of them is doing fine – then I would look at ensuring that your struggling plant is not infested with something, it’s not pot-bound, and that it’s good sufficient fertiliser.

I recommend using a fertilizer for Citrus plants, as they need micro-nutrients that are often absent from other fertilizers.

Citrus often get scale insects attacking them, which suck sap and weaken them, preventing much growth potential. Look for tiny little dots on leaves and stems – they usually have hard greyish coatings. http://www.dnronline.com/photos_hg/scale_insects.jpg http://www.alexanderwild.com/gallery/8802612_hzDGN/1/582824737_EQZh7#582824737_EQZh7 Other insects can be pests too, but you will often notice these, as they’re more obvious.

Oterwise, if you think the pot is causing problems, check that your plant’s roots are good – including if it’s pot bound. You can buy potting soil for Citrus plants that I’ve used with great success for my lemon plants, with their growth far exceeding what I’ve had from a standard mix – partly as it includes a slow release fertilizer for Citrus plants generally. If you have a matching pot, you may be able to swap it over, without much stress to your plant. I also keep my young plants from producing fruit the first year, as this does sap their energy, diminishing the amount of foliage that they’ll produce.

Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob

Japanese Bonsai Ceramic Pot – Miniature Tree Container