{"product_id":"happy-bonsai","title":"Happy Bonsai","description":"Unlock the art of bonsai cultivation with this comprehensive guide, perfect for both beginners and seasoned enthusiasts. This book features detailed care profiles for 40 top bonsai trees, offering a wealth of knowledge to help you select and nurture your own stunning miniaturized landscape. Dive into over 20 illustrated bonsai techniques and styles that transform a simple plant into a captivating living sculpture. You'll learn essential topics like 'nebari' (root structure) and the differences between display types, ensuring you're equipped with the right skills.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith day-to-day and seasonal care advice, expert tips on shaping, and step-by-step demonstrations for popular bonsai styles—including informal upright, raft display, and forest group—you'll gain the confidence to cultivate and shape your bonsai masterpieces. Each tree profile simplifies the growing process, focusing on the essentials to keep your plants healthy and thriving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesigned to make bonsai accessible, this book provides valuable insights on specialist techniques such as repotting, wiring, defoliation, and pruning, all illustrated for clarity. Embrace this meditative garden craft and discover the joy and tranquility that comes with tending to your own bonsai garden. Enjoy the peace that comes from nurturing life, and let your creativity flow through the art of bonsai gardening. Plus, take advantage of our FREE shipping offer as you embark on your bonsai journey!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241412381\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paper over boards\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2020\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Dorling Kindersley\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eAnyone can become a bonsai artist. This book will show you how, through care profiles for 40 top trees and illustrated demonstrations of more than 20 bonsai techniques and styles. Select the right tree, learn how to keep it thriving, and shape your bonsai into a beautiful living sculpture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDo you know what a \"nebari\" is? Can you tell a raft display from a forest group? When is the right time to prune? How do you create a windswept look? Happy Bonsai has all the answers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach tree profile provides easy-to-follow growing information, with day-to-day and seasonal care advice, along with ideas and tips for how to shape. Specialist techniques - such as repotting, wire training, defoliating, and root and branch pruning - are explained with illustrations. Techniques are then put into practice with demonstrations of how to achieve the main bonsai styles, from an informal upright tree to a forest group or root-over-rock. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking bonsai accessible to everyone, Happy Bonsai will help you fall in love with this meditative garden craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis product has FREE shipping however combined shipping for other products is not available with this item.  Please allow up to 10 days for shipping.","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":43236176429145,"sku":"PR551587","price":37.95,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2551\/5502\/files\/9780241412381_SJ2V5PMA85L8.jpg?v=1776543944","url":"https:\/\/smartfox.co.nz\/products\/happy-bonsai","provider":"SmartfoxNZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}