Bonsai survival manual colin lewis

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Bonsai survival manual Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. More details. Colin Lewis 24 books 2 followers. Search review text. Thorough and quite helpful.

Not exactly the most sparkling prose but I did love the different types of trees pictured all lovely in their own way and, fingers crossed, hopefully it will help me to not kill our Bonsai. I really enjoyed this book.

I feel after reading that I can accurately and effectively buy and care for a bonsai, and I look forward to getting my very own! Informative and helpful, though a bit subjective with their opinions on some things! Worth looking over if getting into bonsai, though not something I feel the need to own. I want each Bonsai I create to be different, as original as possible. I have no interest in slavishly following classic styles, although learning them is an essential step to realizing ones own original designs - as important as learning good techniques or horticultural practices.

But once we have learned the stylistic traditions, we should observe what they achieve aesthetically and seek our own ways to achieve the same. The Japanese and Chinese look to their landscapes for inspiration, and they draw on their cultural and artistic heritage for the visual language with which to turn their inspiration into bonsai. This is evident in their different Bonsai aesthetics. Yet the thing that drives them to create Bonsai art, the 'spirit of bonsai' is universal - entirely cross-cultural, east or west.

I believe we should draw upon our own western artistic and cultural heritage to discover new acceptabilities in Bonsai aesthetics. If Bonsai is an art, it must evolve and progress. Such evolution is not led by a hierarchy or elite group not in any art but by individual artists who understand the spirit of Bonsai and have the courage and dedication to explore new paths.