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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carl Achhammer, member of the NEPA Bonsai Society, explains the fundamentals of the art of bonsai to Sonya Smith, who recently rekindled her love for plants and designing them. Pictured are the tools ...

There is a forest of trees on Ivan Lukrich’s front deck. Elms, maples, junipers, olives, pomegranates, oaks – even mighty redwoods. There are dozens of trees displayed in a row on low, ankle-high ...

When you think of activities that people in their 20s and 30s are into, bonsai doesn’t necessarily come to mind. Unless you were a kid who grew up in the age of the “Karate Kid.” But Aarin Packard ...

NEW YORK » Many people have a bonsai story: a first bonsai, a struggling bonsai. And many of these stories do not end happily, at least for the bonsai. But the best bonsai stories are about passion ...

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 ...

WILKES-BARRE — The heat rolled into town just in time for the annual Fine Arts Fiesta on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. For Carl Achammer Jr., a vendor at the Fiesta, that meant he had to water his ...

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 ...