I found this book at the Village Bookstore for $9.95; it has a 2003 copyright. Su Chin Ee was born in Singapore but now lives in Kent, England. The focus of this book is not on creating bonsai or the care of specific varieties of trees, its focus is on penjing landscapes. However the author could not resist putting in a few short pages about the basics but quickly gets into the making of rocks with “ciment fondu” over chicken wire. She then paints them with watercolors to make them look like natural rocks. She creates eighteen very different landscapes in this book. One even has a small water pump hidden in it and the water spills out into a rectangular glass base. There are seven horse figurines in the scene. Another of her water landscapes even has a goldfish in the water surrounding the island.

There are eighteen landscape projects in this book. The trees range from Japanese maple to Shimpaku, flowering cherry and crabapple. One had a fuchsia that the author says she has had for twenty years. At the base of the artificial rock it is planted in is an erodium. Granted this book is NOT about traditional bonsai, but the beauty of the miniature landscapes may fascinate you.