In the midst of California’s ongoing drought, gardeners throughout the state are avoiding adding new trees and bushes to their yards, rationing water to those they have, and wondering how to keep ...

When eight miniature trees disappeared from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland in mid-January, a sense of despair descended on the volunteer-run exhibit. The trees were living masterpieces, ...

For a few hours every afternoon, when the roar of the 405 Freeway becomes a murmur, Miguel Hernandez can hear the results of his work from the small shed at the edge of Yamaguchi Nursery on Sawtelle ...

For bonsai grower Randy Bennett, practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice does, however, keep the miniature trees alive to see another day. Bonsai is the Japanese art of growing ornamental, ...

In the winter of 2002, a young American named Ryan Neil joined an unusual pilgrimage: he and several others flew to Tokyo, to begin a tour of Japan’s finest collections of bonsai trees. He was ...

Little, tiny trees have been a very big deal for a very long time. Bonsai, those intricately groomed dwarf trees in handsome pots, date back centuries. Their loyalists see them as symbols of patience, ...

Bonsai Bar teachers Heather Eisenstadt, left, Sean Lamoureux, center, and Brandon Herwick, right, at The Greenhouse Cidery in Chatham. Bonsai Bar has expanded its beginner friendly workshops ...