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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The art of bonsai (bone-sigh, not bonzai, says one local expert) has been practiced in China and Japan for thousands of years and has a thriving audience of aficionados nowadays in Marion County. Next ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X LAFLIN – Surrounded by shelves of tools and tiny trees, some two dozen people gather monthly ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this rush-rush world, the art and science of bonsai gardening is a somewhat anti-establishment endeavor. Patience and discipline work hand-in-hand as bonsai masters turn plants that nature intended ...

Bonsai, correctly pronounced bone-sigh, is considered an art form; the only art form, in fact, that is never finished, because the plant is continuously growing. The word is broken down into bon, ...