Little trees offer a big payoff — in joy and fulfillment — for members of the Austin Bonsai Society. For Candy Hansen and her husband, Mike Hansen — married 50 years — bonsai has been a decades-long ...
There’s something about growing bonsai trees that makes big problems seem smaller. “That tree to me is not just a lone tree; it’s connected to all the other trees in the world,” said Wayne Atkinson, a ...
Dating back thousands of years in China and Japan, the ancient art of bonsai has long captivated gardeners. Indeed, growing miniature trees in shallow dishes has never gone out of fashion, and today, ...
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 ...
A bonsai infuses your indoor space with ageless gravitas, purposive perseverance, and tortured artistry — both yours and the tree's. How could it be that a plant trained to miniaturize its flowers, ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — Take your home decor to the next level with your very own bonsai tree! The Indianapolis Bonsai Club was founded in 1968 to promote interest in and appreciation of the Japanese ...
Bonsai is an art form that has been practiced for thousands of years. “The unique aspect is that bonsai is alive and constantly changing, not like a sculpture or painting, which remains static,” says ...
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 ...
Lego fans can already build everything from the Star Wars Millennium Falcon to Batman's Batmobile, but now the toy company wants to attract older fans with its new Botanical series. The series, out in ...
Bonsai is an art form that requires years of training and centuries of dedication. At the 2012 international bonsai convention, a tree was on sale for 100 million yen, just under a million dollars.