Perhaps you've felt small and awestruck while standing in the giant shadow of an ancient tree. The bonsai gardener captures that beauty and mystique with tiny, artfully sculpted trees in pots. Bonsai ...

If you love trees but don’t have space for them, bonsai is for you. With bonsai, you can grow mature trees that stay small and live for generations. It's an art form that brings the grandeur of large ...

However, bonsai trees are more than just a potted plant. They are naturally dwarfed trees that are trained to look like mature trees in nature. The trees are living sculptures residing in a container ...

Roger Snipes of the Inland Empire Bonsai Society prunes or defoliates leaves off a hedge maple he is training. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo For Roger Snipes, working with his ...

“Bonsai is the art of illusion,” said Gary Teeter, vice president of the Knoxville Bonsai Society. On Oct. 11, the society ...

Winter is a wonderful time to take gardening to a new level, a time to enjoy change. My “bonsai” friend, Leonard Zunin, says, “Like any hobby, bonsai may touch your heart and become a lifelong passion ...

ASHEVILLE — The Bonsai Exhibition Garden of the North Carolina Arboretum is an engaging, pleasant surprise tucked among the arboretum’s nine other outdoor areas. My son, Andrew, and I had the ...

HOUMA — If you walk over the Twin Spans heading toward east Houma and peer through the chain-link fence at the end of the bridge, you’ll notice an unusual patch of rocks and plants. That’s A.J.

The ancient, meditative gardening-art form of bonsai captures the beauty, strength and mystery found in old trees. It's the antithesis of our fast-paced, youth-obsessed, disposable-product lifestyle.

In the wild, ponderosa pine trees tower higher than 250 feet. White pine trees grow to 75 feet and black pines can reach 100 feet. Yet, Dr. Mike Andrews’ prized pine trees top out at a few feet.