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 ...

Bonsai trees are a wonder of nature bent by the hand of man. But before your love for these works of living art prompt you to plunk down some yen and take one or three home, take note. This small ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Yoshio Naka, the world-renowned bonsai master who was credited with bringing the art to Western culture, has died. He was 89. Naka, a resident of Whittier, died Wednesday at Whittier Hospital ...

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 ...

Love at first sight is the best way to describe Dan O’Neal’s attraction to bonsai trees. O’Neal, senior development officer in the office of Institutional Advancement at Converse College, bought his ...

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, ...

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 ...