A reader recently asked me to write about bonsai tree requirements, but more specifically, how to keep bonsai trees alive during the seasons. Let’s begin with a brief history of Bonsai, which in ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan will celebrate its 10-year-old garden of bonsai and penjing trees with a month of events in June. Starting June 1, the university’s Matthaei Botanical ...

Bonsai trees are known for being a challenge even to the most qualified plant owners, with their watering needs being one of the biggest conundrums. Learning how to care for a bonsai tree is not for ...

The ancient art of bonsai may look deceptively simple, but its practice requires care, contemplation, and consistency over long periods of time—especially if you’re growing an entire miniature forest, ...

Guy Joseph Guidry fondly remembers the moment he first encountered a bonsai tree, three decades ago. Guidry spotted a cluster of the miniature trees in his neighbor's backyard in New Orleans. They ...

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, ...

Moses Weisberg was walking his bicycle through the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington when he stopped at a mushroom-shaped tree. The first thing he noticed was the thickness of the trunk, ...

SEQUIM — More than 50 bonsai trees, many collected from the wild and some centuries old, will be on display during the Dungeness Bonsai Society’s annual exhibition June 19-20. The free show will be ...