by Paul Lesniewicz
Another book about bonsai. I liked this one because it focuses on plants that make good bonsai to be kept indoors, whereas they\’re more commonly kept outside. I always did want some for in the house, not just brought in for display. Indoor Bonsai has a photo gallery of indoor houseplants that can be trained as bonsai. There are instructions basic care, design, when to wire or prune (or both), how to cure common pests and diseases, and how to grow plants from seed or cuttings. I\’m interested in trying to make bonsai out of a schefflera or jade plant (crassula), and for the first time in this book found reference (but no picture) of geraniums being grown as bonsai, so I no longer feel odd about having one! It also answered one of my long-standing questions about houseplants: the white crud that forms on the top of the soil and around inside rim of my pots? It\’s from the water being too hard. Soften the water by boiling first, or collect rainwater, and this should go away, the book tells me. So I\’m trying that now.
Rating: 3/5 …….. 208 pages, 1985