Story update: The exhibition "American Bonsai: The Unbridled Art of Ryan Neil" runs at the Portland Japanese Garden May 21–June 19, 2016. When most Americans think of bonsai — the craft of pruning and ...

Bonsai trees are a wonder of nature bent by the hand of man. But before your love for these works of living art prompt you to plunk down some yen and take one or three home, take note. This small ...

Dating back thousands of years in China and Japan, the ancient art of bonsai has long captivated gardeners. Indeed, growing ...

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 ...

Bonsai is an art form that requires years of training and centuries of dedication. At the 2012 international bonsai convention, a tree was on sale for 100 million yen, just under a million dollars.

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 ...

Chico >> “There are no borders in bonsai. The dove of peace flies to palace as to humble house, to young as to old, to rich and poor. So does the spirit of bonsai.” So wrote John Yoshio Naka, an ...

The right tree can change the landscape. Just look at what's happened outside the Portland Japanese Garden's Pavilion. With Mount Hood and the city skyline as a backdrop, five bonsai are displayed on ...

The Bonsai Society of Portland was founded a half century ago and has grown to 300 members, making it one of the largest clubs in the U.S. centered on the Asian art of training small trees into ...

A forest of tiny bonsai trees sat somewhere near the intersection of art and horticulture Saturday for hundreds of hobbyists to admire at the annual state convention. Bonsai, growing a plant or shrub ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X LAFLIN – Surrounded by shelves of tools and tiny trees, some two dozen people gather monthly ...