Click to open image viewer. With these five stamps, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates the beauty of bonsai. The word “bonsai” (Japanese for “plant in a pot”) refers to the art of cultivating ...

For a long time, I assumed bonsai was the kind of hobby reserved for extremely patient people with tiny scissors, impossibly steady hands, and a level of inner calm I personally do not possess. When I ...

Q I have a large collection of bonsai trees that all require some degree of winterization: Evergreen conifers and cold-hardy deciduous broadleaf trees (oaks, maples, hackberry) get mulched-in outdoors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The living sculptures of bonsai (pronounced bone-sigh, Japanese for tree in a tray or pot) are potted plants that are ...

The art of bonsai - roughly translated as "tray planting" in Japanese - is an ancient way of having a plant or tree to grow to your artistic design, usually small. It came from China through Japan, ...

The backyard of Keijiro Izumi’s San Mateo home embodies a certain floral elegance, highlighted by the rows of Satsuki azaleas he tends. Varying shades of petals from pink to purple grace the bonsai ...