Bonsai Design:Deciduous and Conifers

weirdowl

Any of you read this book?




Bonsai Design: Deciduous and Conifers by Peter Adams.

Is it as good as Japanese Maples? What do you think? Have any other suggestions for books with lots of good detailed info on these types of trees? It seems I've made a lot of unwise buys recently with bonsai books. I have about 4 or 5 "beginner" books. The first one was cool and informative but they all just seem to have the same stuff in them. I want books that go into detail about certain types of trees. Do you know of any like this? Thanks

weirdowl

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I added the picture and link to your message above so although it is out of print, you can follow the reviews at Amazon.com.
They also come up in the used area sometimes, too.

I haven't read this one yet, myself.

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I have not seen this book either. Though, written by Peter I'm sure it is well worth the price.

You feel the same way I do when it comes to books. You buy one, seen one, and you seen them all. While there are a few that stand out, books in general tend to be breif, so as to get the whole bonsai thing in the book and not be 1000 pages and 500.00 bucks.


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Carl_Bergstrom

I have a copy, though I haven't finished reading it - I'm "saving" it while working through some other less treasured material. I know, sounds crazy...oh well.

Anyway, it seems like a really excellent book. I can't compare it to the Maples book, because I still haven't found a copy of that. But it does a wonderful job of stepping through several kinds of deciduous tees and coniferous trees - beeches and hornbeams, elm and zelkova, juniper and cryptomeria. This is just the first half of the book; for the second half, Peter goes through case histories for 16 trees divided into three "stages": development of mass, structure and form, and refinement of image. All is done with typical Adams flair and with wonderful sketches throughout.

It's well worth the $20 I paid for it; probably worth quite a bit more than that actually.

Best regards,
Old Mister

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weirdowl

Thanks for the pic and link Matt. That looks proffesional, am I being billed for that? Amazon's all out of them for now. Looks like trees aren't the only thing to be patient with.

Thanks Al. I saw your pics of books in another post and I've borrowed The Essentials of Bonsai book from the library before. I agree, it's great. It doesn't look like much by the odd size and the bubble lettering but it was probably my favorite from the library once I looked inside.

Thanks OldMisterCrow. You've thoroughly convinced me. It sounds like a really good book. How in the world did you buy it for $20?


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Carl_Bergstrom

WeirdOwl,

Seattle has lots of terrific used bookstores, and I spend my share of time (and money) in them. This was a recent good find.

Best regards,
Old Mister.

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in the beginning i was buying every bonsai book i came across.
with a collection of 15-20 books, it covers pretty much anything one could need, and mostly now i look for books with especially good images, as i love to see the "finished" products by the masters.

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