The Asian art of Bonsai offers an alternative to the scarcity of winter. Dwarf Yaupon Holly in the Chinese penjing style, which seeks to shape trees of unusual character to aesthetic principles. This ...

Nine students gathered in the Farm and Home Center in May. Different schools, ages and backgrounds were represented. Each carried a tiny tree and a ceramic pot. As they listened intently to instructor ...

Kawaguchi City, located just north of Tokyo and easily accessible from the city center, is home to a 400-year tradition of bonsai and horticultural culture known as "Chitose Midori." This rare ...

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 ...

NEW YORK » Many people have a bonsai story: a first bonsai, a struggling bonsai. And many of these stories do not end happily, at least for the bonsai. But the best bonsai stories are about passion ...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash — Aarin Packard, the curator of the Pacific Bonsai Museum, began practicing the ancient art of bonsai in his teenage years. “And then it turned into a hobby which turned into a ...

Miniature trees and mesmerizing stones have taken center stage of Sonoma Botanical Garden’s exhibition, “The Bonsai Show: Wood and Stone,” featuring a serene collection of tiny living sculptures ...

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado Nearly a dozen bonsai trees decorate Liz and Timm Paxsons Vail home. There are miniature maples, elms and even a prized 60-year-old juniper tree the couple had to convince a ...

Christen Christian has been working with bonsai for more than three decades. She now has hundreds of plants at her Wilmington home and is the current president of the Cape Fear Bonsai Society. “There ...

Discover these imaginative miniatures for yourself as members of the Prairie State Bonsai Society show off their masterpieces and demonstrate the award-winning techniques. The Art of Bonsai show will ...