Designing Dwarfs in the Desert, the first 35 years of the Phoenix Bonsai Society
Editorial Reviews
Jane Nelson, ABS Bonsai Journal, Summer 1998, pg. 61
"The amount of research that went into this comprehensive report on bonsai growth must be applauded. This reviewer was intrigued by the formatting of the text. The short paragraph on each development reminded this reviewer of Walter Winchell's staccato reporting of the news on his Sunday radio broadcast - succinct, lively and interesting.
"This book is highly recommended for those interested in the history of bonsai, not only in Phoenix, but in the United States."
Book Description
The illustrated story of the Phoenix Bonsai Society, a group of some five hundred horticultural explorers (founded in 1962) who applied standard recommended bonsai cultivation and care techniques and then learned by much trial and error the modifications needed for artistic potted plant survival in the Sonoran Desert in and around Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. The lives, learnings and teachings of their three principle sensei: Paul Matsusaki, Leroy Fujii and John Yoshio Naka (the latter now recognized as one of the world's greatest teachers of bonsai). Background on Phoenix, the Valley Garden Center and Desert Botanical Garden where the club meets and has met, the Japanese-American community here, contemporary events and other teachers in the world of bonsai who have interacted with and taught our club members. What is needed to keep bonsai alive in Phoenix.
Designing Dwarfs in the Desert, the first 35 years of the Phoenix Bonsai Society
Designing Dwarfs in the Desert, the first 35 years of the Phoenix Bonsai Society,Robert J. Baran,Pyramid Dancer Publications,0965991334,Sociology
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