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 ...
In this rush-rush world, the art and science of bonsai gardening is a somewhat anti-establishment endeavor. Patience and discipline work hand-in-hand as bonsai masters turn plants that nature intended ...
Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens is receiving a transformational gift of 150 masterpieces. But these aren’t your typical works of art—they’re bonsai trees, and they come from Doug Paul’s Kennett ...
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 ...
With their strange shapes and unusual textures, succulents arealready eye-catching flora. And when trained as bonsai, they becomeeven more intriguing. They are so arresting, in fact, that when Vista ...
Carl Achhammer, member of the NEPA Bonsai Society, explains the fundamentals of the art of bonsai to Sonya Smith, who recently rekindled her love for plants and designing them. Pictured are the tools ...
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 ...
Dorothy Kres, an 85-year-old resident of Cape Coral, enjoys taking beginner classes at Wigert’s Bonsai Nursery. “When I discovered the nursery, I was so excited that they could teach me to pot, wire, ...
EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado Nearly a dozen bonsai trees decorate Liz and Timm Paxsons Vail home. There are miniature maples, elms and even a prized 60-year-old juniper tree the couple had to convince a ...