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 ...

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 ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Harold Sasaki wants to dispel some myths about bonsai: that they’re hard to grow, for example. “Most often, a ...

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 ...

Japan’s history with Bonsai trees goes back a thousand years, when they were first introduced there from China. The miniature trees, available in many forms, connect their owners to nature. But if you ...

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.

Bonsai is an art form that has been practiced for thousands of years. “The unique aspect is that bonsai is alive and constantly changing, not like a sculpture or painting, which remains static,” says ...

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 ...

Bonsai is an art form that requires years of training and centuries of dedication. At the 2012 international bonsai convention, a tree was on sale for 100 million yen, just under a million dollars.