In the right spot, Japanese white pines can grow 50 feet tall with branches spreading even wider. Bob Hunter has spent 40 years caring for a Japanese white pine: pruning, training, picking the right ...

The practice of bonsai originated in China but has become an art form in Japan over the last thousand years or more. Bonsai ...

In Japan it's bonsai. In China, it's penjing. And here in the United States, there's a growing fascination with these small wonders of nature crafted by man. Here's Rita Braver: In the midst of our ...

Bill Ward is not the guy you would pick to fall in love with bonsai trees, those inanimate avatars of contemplation, calm and completion. There's nothing left out but nothing left in, either, that ...

Are you itching to get back out after the long isolation of the pandemic? Are you and your friends not sure you remember how to socialize with anything other than your houseplants and pets? Are you ...

When eight miniature trees disappeared from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland in mid-January, a sense of despair descended on the volunteer-run exhibit. The trees were living masterpieces, ...

WASHINGTON — In a small, arboreal corner of Washington, D.C., a relic of a horrific day 70 years ago lives in relative obscurity. A bonsai tree, part of a collection at the National Arboretum, came to ...