Bonsai trees are what happen when art and nature come together. While almost any tree species can be used, those with naturally smaller leaves are often easier to train and maintain in these ...

It’s 2020 – and with the Lunar New Year just weeks away, farmers in Vietnam have come up with a unique way to herald the Year of the Rat. These bonsai trees are shaped to look like rats, and were made ...

Bonsai, the ancient Japanese practice of growing miniature trees in small containers, has long fascinated people around the world. The term “bonsai” translates to “tray planting” in Japanese, ...

Monterey >> The key to bonsai is patience. But that shouldn’t be much of a surprise. This is an art form, after all, in which trees can be 500 years old, passed down from generation to generation.

Roger Snipes of the Inland Empire Bonsai Society prunes or defoliates leaves off a hedge maple he is training. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo For Roger Snipes, working with his ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Harold Sasaki wants to dispel some myths about bonsai: that they’re hard to grow, for example. “Most often, a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Darren George runs the YouTube channel Gro Bonsai, where he restores and maintains bonsai trees. He shows us how he restores an overgrown bonsai tree. This includes ...

It all started with a bonsai tree that Jim Osborne’s parents gave him and his wife back in 1989. The couple had just bought their first home, and Osborne’s parents thought the little juniper made a ...

At Lions Field on a recent weeknight, Bryan Banks leaned over his black pine bonsai tree like Paul Bunyan without his ax. Around him, other members of the San Antonio Bonsai Society towered over their ...

Less than three days after they were stolen, two valuable bonsai trees were returned to a museum in Washington. The bonsai trees were “mysteriously” returned to the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal ...