A bonsai is a small tree or shrub grown in a shallow pot. Pruning is what makes and keeps it small, but pruning is only a small part of the art of bonsai. The art - pronounced BONE-sigh - began in ...

Kathy Shaner considers herself an accidental bonsai aficionado. “I didn’t know the word bonsai existed until I took a local class at a community center at what I assumed was how to grow a yard tree,” ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A program on “The Art of Bonsai” will be presented Wednesday, July 9 at 6:30 p.m. at Kellogg Environmental Center, 500 Hawthorne Ave., Derby. Todd Hansen, a certified teacher of bonsai, and Lydia Cruz ...

A big bonsai show is coming to the region. Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21, Mid Atlantic Bonsai Society will hold its 39th Annual Spring Bonsai Festival at the Holiday Inn Grantville-Hershey ...

Harsha Ashok Hinduja with a 10-year-old bonsai Braya at her Mumbai home. Hinduja says: "Over more than four decades, living with bonsai has shaped many aspects of my life." (Image courtesy Hinduja ...