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 ...
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 ...
Discover where to place a bonsai tree, according to Feng Shui experts. Bonsai trees can bring harmony, balance, and growth, but only if placed correctly.
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 ...
With their strange shapes and unusual textures, succulents arealready eye-catching flora. And when trained as bonsai, they becomeeven more intriguing. They are so arresting, in fact, that when Vista ...
FEDERAL WAY, Wash — Aarin Packard, the curator of the Pacific Bonsai Museum, began practicing the ancient art of bonsai in his teenage years. “And then it turned into a hobby which turned into a ...
Each tiny snip is a work of art. From his Greenwood backyard, Mark Fields carefully crafts living masterpieces. Potted trident maples, Japanese white pine and cascade style Korean wild rose are shaped ...
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 ...
The centuries-old craft is thriving as both a hobby and an art form, with contemporary practitioners around the world asking what lessons it can impart today. Bonsai created by the Japanese artist ...
In Japan, bonsai was once considered a hobby for elderly men. But that image has changed in recent years, with a new type of bonsai winning fans among women. Bonsai artist Kaori Yamada is one of the ...