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 ...

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 ...

Ask most people involved in bonsai how they got started, and they will tell you ”by accident.” Maybe so, but it is a pastime that any of them could have discarded a thousand times over if growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of years of history live in Scott Elser's backyard, where bonsai specimens line up to tell a tale of the ancient practice of turning trees into miniature pieces of nature. "I've always been ...

An 800-year-old bonsai during a bonsai exhibition at Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, Japan, on November 24, 2023 ZHANG XIAOYU / XINHUA VIA AFP The Japanese art of bonsai is attracting growing interest.

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.