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Good morning everyone!
I'm a novice enthusiat hungry for more knowledge! I've been reading everything I can find on the net but, am particularly interested in books / subscriptions/periodicals that you've found informative.

I've read ( over & over) P.Chans "Bonsái Secrets". I was uber lucky to find 2 books at Goodwill hardcover, "Bonsái, growing miniature potted trees" by Murata (a mere dollar!) & for .50cents by Brooklyn Botanical Garden "Bonsái for Indoors" 1988,w/ great articles & drawings my Naka, Derderian, Okamura & many other recognizable names.

I'd especially like to find a magazine, something I could get monthly or bi-monthly. I've heard of the ABS Journal. I know some are online subscriptions. I'm open to both but do prefer to hold a book, turn pages!

Has anyone read either "Collecting from the Wild" by Lenz?
Or "Ficus, the exotic bonsai" by Meislik? I'm interested in both.
I've heard good things about "101 Esstential Tips" by Tomlinsom but, am afraid it may just reiterate much of what I already read . . . .

What literature have you found helpful? I went to 4 local bookstores & not one had a single title regarding bonsai!! (Hoping bonsai will gain some traction around here eventually!) If anyone had a book they like to sell I'd be happy to negotiate price & pay for shipping naturally. I'd have to order online anyway.
In advance, thank you & HAPPY SPRING!

Check your local library. I found great reading at mine. 名媛直播 Techniques by Naka is one of my personal favorites.

Wise. Why didn't I think of that!?! Any info I want I can simply photocopy & put in my Bonsái Binder!

Naka; I 2nd that!!!!

the complete encyclopedia of bonsai is a good beginer book.to be honest tho alot of books reiterate the same info over and over (winter is reading time for me) but i have found that each book has a little valuable tidbit of info that the others dont so i just keep reading whatever i find. i realize the whole "reading an actual book" thing but the internet has a ton of info and its easier to search and find there

I would advise reading The Complete Practical Encyclopedia of 名媛直播. I've read several books but this is definitly the best.

If you're still unsure here's the link to it on Amazon.

Thanks for the link; & for being helpful! I very much appreciate anyone taki g the time to even read my novice questions!

I hit the library today & got "The complete Encyclopedia. . " & "Beginner's Guide to American Bonsái" by J.P Stowell w/ foreword by Murata. I limited myself to those two. The Encyclopedia looks like its worth buying, especially if I could find it used! (I'm quite frugal!!) Although I won't have the pretty glossy photos, I may just photocopy the info I want for the future. Perhaps ill photocopy EVERY page! library cards are free for residents so it'll cost me only the paper & ink!

I also grabbed 2 huge books, 1 on Japanese art, the other on Chinese landscape paintings for inspiration. I adore literati/bunjin style. But, b/c there are less branches & foliage it certainly isn't an "easy" style, in fact, it seems most difficult: to express such emotion w/ the bare minimum.

id agree with the bujin style,done corectly its my top 3 favorite(im partial to group and forests) try searching chinese penjing.it is bonsai in lanscape form plus it is the origin of bonsai the chinese started 2000 years ago

I will!! I am 1/2 Viet but my fathers mother & her family hail from China. I hope to visit someday; there must be bonsai gardens in Vietnam!! (A connecting flight to Japan!*sigh!*) a girl can dream!

I read an interesting article on literati; a chicken or the egg sort of conundrum. Were the artists painting the trees as the saw them in nature or drawn from the mind, what was "beautiful" to them? I will try to find it & link it here. The author posed this may have been the effect of ppl, in addition to natures elements that gave them their particular structure; it was theorized the local mountain ppl would strip the branches for firewood but, being rescourceful- never taking down the whole tree entirely. This makes sense to me!

Forest/group plantings have a magical quality to me. I suppose they all do but, a group done right, draws me into the scene. I think of A Midsummer's Nights Dream. . . I'm a amateur thespian & love the Bard.

ahh yes vietnam and korea are known for their elaborate penjing.i would love to spend a month or 2 touring all of asia it seems like a magical place to me

interesting idea of the mountain men stripping the lower branches it definately makes sence ...it does happen naturally tho,i have a perfect example in my backyard. a heavy snow storm stripped a yellow pine of almost all of its branches. if i only had a shrink ray