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 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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 Asian art of Bonsai offers an alternative to the scarcity of winter. Dwarf Yaupon Holly in the Chinese penjing style, which seeks to shape trees of unusual character to aesthetic principles. This ...