When eight miniature trees disappeared from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland in mid-January, a sense of despair descended on the volunteer-run exhibit. The trees were living masterpieces, ...

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 ...

When most people think of the word “bonsai”, they are thinking of indoor bonsai trees. However, there are many types of ...

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 ...

As part of Plant Week, and our hunt for plants that may not yet have had their time in the “Instagram limelight,” one that we landed on was the ponytail palm. According to Justina Blakeney, founder ...

Photographer Stephen Voss spends most of his days bouncing between rushed portrait sessions and heavily scrutinized PR-commissioned shoots in Washington, D.C. It’s unusual for him to have more than a ...

Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner. Geisinger, a former ...

Experience Wabi Sabi through a sustainable bonsai plant, a recycled art project breathing new life into Japanese art at Park Hotel Tokyo. MINATO-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN ...