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do not waste your time and money with these kits, February 11, 2004
This review is from: The Bonsai Kit: Perfect The Ancient Art Of Miniature Gardening (Hardcover)
These kits are a waste of time and money. If you want to start with bonsai. Buy one of the beginning bonsai books offered by amazon. Harry Tomlinson's book is a good start. Then...go to your local nursery and buy a few inexpensive potted shrubs -- far better material then you could ever achieve with the seeds in this kit, and saves you about ten years of work and wait. Please do not support the charlatan peddlers of these little rip off kits.
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Lack of starting guidance., February 21, 2011
This review is from: The Bonsai Kit: Perfect The Ancient Art Of Miniature Gardening (Hardcover)
Purchased this kit with a gift certificate, and although there is a somewhat interesting 68 page little book, the kit was totally lacking any specific guidance and instruction on how to actually plant, water and nurture for a starting sapling tree. The pruning scissors that come with the kit are very cheap as well. We've set the seeds provided on the "peat pellet" provided, and used other sources to attempt to properly water and nurture; we'll see if we get a sapling. (?) The first reviewer's comments may well be on the mark.
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