Japan's leading bonsai experts offer not only the basics for creating perfect bonsai, but also secret techniques the family has developed over generations of careful work and observation. It covers such skills as: taking a cutting for a new bonsai in winter while the plant still stores its winter nutrients, then wrapping and freezing the cutting until spring, when it will thrive; trimming branches in such a way as to eliminate swelling and scarring; the proper use of tools to ensure perfection...
