Bonsai trees are small, artistic versions of larger trees, crafted through special pruning and shaping techniques. This practice involves methods like crown pruning, root pruning, and growing the ...

Growing bonsai is complicated. It can take six years or more to create a bonsai from a tree purchased at a nursery or scavenged from the wild. But after all that work and time, some of the trees up ...

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 ...

The Japanese maple makes a beautiful statement piece in your yard, but it can also be turned into an equally stunning bonsai ...

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 ...

Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner. Geisinger, a former ...

Lego fans can already build everything from the Star Wars Millennium Falcon to Batman's Batmobile, but now the toy company wants to attract older fans with its new Botanical series. The series, out in ...

As snow flies in the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains and the Adirondacks, nature is pruning its evergreens. It uses the weight of snow upon small seedling pines and firs to distort their otherwise ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan will celebrate its 10-year-old garden of bonsai and penjing trees with a month of events in June. Starting June 1, the university’s Matthaei Botanical ...