Home Gardener's Bonsai: Buying, planting, displaying, improving and caring for bonsai

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With topics ranging from watering and feeding to spirit and aesthetics, it provides an all-in-one guide to this ancient and fascinating hobby. The book features advice on looking for and raising trees; handling pests and diseases; using composts; potting; choosing containers; pruning the plants; and displaying them. A convenient A-Z guide covers virtually every species of indoor and outdoor tree.

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David Squire trained as a horticulturist and is the author of over 80 gardening and plant-related titles, including The Scented Garden, which won the Garden Writers of America Quill and Trowel Award, as well as The First-time Garden Specialist and The Small Garden Specialist. David has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.