The Living Art of Bonsai: Principles & Techniques of Cultivation & Propagation

by Amy Liang

Overview

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. The remarkable images display everything from dazzling miniature evergreens to flowering and fruited trees.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454912217
Publisher:	Sterling
Publication date:	03/04/2014
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	1,058,624
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.25(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Professor Amy Liang, who taught at Seattle Pacific University and lectured in the US, has pursued bonsai for over 20 years. She currently resides in China.

Editorial Reviews

“ . . . Liang's is one of the best [books on the subject]. Her book includes a breathtaking photo gallery of bonsai, basic styles, group planting, plant physiology, cultivation, propagation, transplanting and repotting, and training and dwarfing-in other words, everything the bonsai grower needs to know." —Booklist

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