Voss made nearly 80 trips to the US National Arboretum over a two-year period and the project evolved into a fine art book entitled " In Training," which refers to the art of training a bonsai. Voss ...
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.
Stephen Voss was a student at the George Washington University when he first encountered bonsai trees nearly 20 years ago at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C. “Initially, I was ...
Less than three days after they were stolen, two valuable bonsai trees were returned to a museum in Washington. The bonsai trees were “mysteriously” returned to the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal ...
Two bonsai trees worth thousands of dollars that require special care were stolen from a Washington state museum, the museum said. Two people wearing hooded sweatshirts were seen slinking into a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...