Bonsai trees are more like a piece of living art than a houseplant. Choosing the right tree or shrub to cultivate makes all the difference in looks and success.

Years ago I used to climb into 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 ...

Japanese botanical culture stretches back thousands of years. The principles central to the country’s art forms are influenced by Zen Buddhism and the expression of Wabi-sabi, or a worldview focused ...

There’s something about growing bonsai trees that makes big problems seem smaller. “That tree to me is not just a lone tree; it’s connected to all the other trees in the world,” said Wayne Atkinson, a ...

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 ...

Her outdoor trees include a Black Hills spruce, a ginkgo planted from seed, an amur maple, a Korean hornbeam (its leaves turn orange in fall), a Barbados dwarf cherry (one year it actually produced a ...

Twenty-two years ago, I was walking trough a commercial wholesale nursery searching for just the right trees for a special project I was working on. Along with several other plants, I purchased a ...

The lock that’s always cracked with a hairpin. The slow walk away from a car engulfed in flames. The bonsai perched on a CEO’s desk on the 45th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, where he contemplates ...

In Britain’s damp, changeable climate, your first tiny tree can decide whether bonsai becomes a calming ritual or a ...

Long Beach resident Carlos Parache often goes to local breweries to hang out with friends and maybe take part in a trivia night or other organized events while sipping on some brews. But recently ...