Product Description
The Home Gardener: Bonsai
Authors: David Squire, Allan Haschick
Format: Paperback
Bonsai, the practice of growing miniaturized trees in shallow containers, can transform even the tiniest outdoor space into a beautiful landscape, or create points of interest both indoors and out. The selection of plants that can be developed into bonsai ranges from conifers, maples and bamboos to leafy and flowering trees and shrubs, and hardy indigenous species that are adapted to local conditions.
With its wealth of sound advice and helpful tips, this book will guide novices through their first steps, as well as offer new ideas and insight to experienced practitioners of this captivating botanical art.
About the Author
Allan Haschick holds a national diploma in Horticulture from Technikon Natal. He is currently assistant manager at Floradale Nursery and Garden Centre in Port Elizabeth. Allan started writing for SA Garden in 1999 and, in 2002, joined the magazine's panel of experts who provide advice to readers. He has also written columns for the Eastern Cape Herald and Algoa Sun newspapers and contributed several articles to the 'Life is a Garden' marketing programme of the South African Nurseryman's Association. In addition, he gives talks to garden clubs and groups throughout the Eastern Cape.
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