Little trees offer a big payoff — in joy and fulfillment — for members of the Austin Bonsai Society. For Candy Hansen and her husband, Mike Hansen — married 50 years — bonsai has been a decades-long ...

“Japanese maples are actually really, really good for bonsai because they tend to be more of a diminutive tree to begin with,” says Steve Pettis, commercial and consumer horticulture agent for the ...

The Indianapolis Bonsai Club was founded in 1968 to promote interest in and appreciation of the Japanese art form, which uses techniques to produce small trees that mimic the shape and scale of ...

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 ...

Roy Yamashiroya’s Salt Lake home features dozens of bonsai, including fruiting plants such as tangerine, Meyer lemon, calamansi, lime and starfruit trees. He uses aluminum wire to shape the plants.

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 ...

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 ...