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 ...

For 15 years they stood, blending in among the plants and shrubs in Norm Geisinger's lush, front yard garden. They were bonsai once. That was until Geisinger, who was working as a financial director ...

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 ...

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 ...

Story update: The exhibition "American Bonsai: The Unbridled Art of Ryan Neil" runs at the Portland Japanese Garden May 21–June 19, 2016. When most Americans think of bonsai — the craft of pruning and ...

During a recent gathering of the Bonsai Society of Portland’s open studio workshop, dozens of people gathered at the Milwaukie Community Center with shears, wires and even toothbrushes to shape and ...

Growing a bonsai is more than just caring for a miniature tree — it’s an art, a craft and an ancient meditative practice. Originating in China thousands of years ago, bonsai was later adapted by ...

In this rush-rush world, the art and science of bonsai gardening is a somewhat anti-establishment endeavor. Patience and discipline work hand-in-hand as bonsai masters turn plants that nature intended ...

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 ...

John Nielsen, a certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture, will present “Bonsai Tree Cultivation” when the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society meets 7 p.m. Thursday ...