The contemplative beauty of bonsai returns to Sonoma Botanical Garden this winter with an indoor exhibit featuring works by artisans with the Redwood Empire Bonsai Society. “The Bonsai Show: Wood and ...

For more than 50-years, a tiny movement has grown in the East Bay thanks to Dennis Makishima. He is considered by many, a master of Aesthetic Pruning, and an influential figure in California's bonsai ...

Although growing a bonsai tree can be challenging, it's also one of the most mindful practices gardeners can take on. It gives you something to be responsible for, with a very strict care regime to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Darren George runs the YouTube channel Gro Bonsai, where he restores and maintains bonsai trees. He shows us how he restores an overgrown bonsai tree. This includes ...

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 ...

At Lions Field on a recent weeknight, Bryan Banks leaned over his black pine bonsai tree like Paul Bunyan without his ax. Around him, other members of the San Antonio Bonsai Society towered over their ...

In the right spot, Japanese white pines can grow 50 feet tall with branches spreading even wider. Bob Hunter has spent 40 years caring for a Japanese white pine: pruning, training, picking the right ...

A reader recently asked me to write about bonsai tree requirements, but more specifically, how to keep bonsai trees alive during the seasons. Let’s begin with a brief history of Bonsai, which in ...

Growing a bonsai is more than just caring for a miniature tree — it’s an art, a craft and an ancient meditative practice. Originating in China thousands of years ago, bonsai was later adapted by ...