Years ago, I used to climb the High Sierras to drink wine and hunt rare wild bonsai trees. In the high country, an extreme regimen of wind, snow, drought and impossibly thin soils create nature’s ...

Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens is receiving a transformational gift of 150 masterpieces. But these aren’t your typical works of art—they’re bonsai trees, and they come from Doug Paul’s Kennett ...

What: Exhibit and educational event. When: 10 a.m-6 p.m. (admission closes at 4:30 p.m.); Saturday and Sunday; and Tuesday through Sunday, Aug. 12. Where: Stan Hywet ...

Everything you don’t know about the ancient horticulture art of bonsai likely begins with its pronunciation. While most people pronounce it “baun-sigh,” the correct way is “bone-sigh,” according to ...

For 15 years they stood, blending in among the plants and shrubs in Norm Geisinger's lush, front yard garden. They were bonsai once. That was until Geisinger, who was working as a financial director ...

During a recent gathering of the Bonsai Society of Portland’s open studio workshop, dozens of people gathered at the Milwaukie Community Center with shears, wires and even toothbrushes to shape and ...

Dorothy Kres, an 85-year-old resident of Cape Coral, enjoys taking beginner classes at Wigert’s Bonsai Nursery. “When I discovered the nursery, I was so excited that they could teach me to pot, wire, ...

It is nine in the morning on a Wednesday, and within the confines of Balboa Park’s Japanese Friendship Garden, a few bonsai enthusiasts are moving quietly among the birds and the dew, tending to their ...

Growing a bonsai is more than just caring for a miniature tree — it’s an art, a craft and an ancient meditative practice. Originating in China thousands of years ago, bonsai was later adapted by ...