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, ...

Bonsai appreciators Zahra Ashe-Simmer and Oliver Egger: “There’s something so pleasing about [the trees] being miniature.” In order to maximize its access to air and light, Peter Hlousek’s blue spruce ...

In the right spot, Japanese white pines can grow 50 feet tall with branches spreading even wider. Bob Hunter has spent 40 years caring for a Japanese white pine: pruning, training, picking the right ...

The practice of bonsai originated in China but has become an art form in Japan over the last thousand years or more. Bonsai is the practice of growing a potted tree in miniature form. Initially, it ...

Hugh Grant (not Wonka’s Oompa Loompa, but a strapping lad from Sydney’s northern beaches) discovered bonsai around the age of nine or 10. He’d been watching the ABC’s Gardening Australia when a ...

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 ...

Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner. Geisinger, a former ...

The bonsai garden is almost tucked away, in the back of the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, in the northeastern corner of Ann Arbor. With a wooden fence around it, one opening ...

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 ...