The delicate beauty of winter’s flowering trees is the highlight of this year’s bonsai exhibition On view January 9 – March ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Behind a nondescript wooden door in the backyard of a home on the city's southeast side sits a serene hideaway, a Japanese bonsai garden. Tim Priest was pulled into the world of ...

home-backyard Bonsai Tree Maintainence Training and taking care of Bonsai requires patience and creativity. The Bonsai Society of Northeast PA show how to tame and maintain these miniature wonders.

As snow flies in the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains and the Adirondacks, nature is pruning its evergreens. It uses the weight of snow upon small seedling pines and firs to distort their otherwise ...

Bonsai trees are considered an expression of Japanese garden aesthetics. It takes a lot of care to keep a small tree alive. A bonsai can live for many hundreds of years, becoming a true treasure. It’s ...

One of the most famous Japanese gardens in the world is at Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto. Created between the 14th and 16th centuries, the Zen garden consists of 15 stones scattered on a bed of raked white ...

In the winter of 2002, a young American named Ryan Neil joined an unusual pilgrimage: he and several others flew to Tokyo, to begin a tour of Japan’s finest collections of bonsai trees. He was ...

With their stark beauty, desert/cactus gardens are typically found in hot and arid environments. Plants featured are usually ...

Gabe Hernandez loves nature, but living in the city, especially while working from home during the pandemic, made it hard to get out into the wilderness. “So I decided to bring a little nature to me,” ...

Michael Murtaugh and Donna Moriki have at least 100 trees in their backyard, from maples and aspen to crape myrtle and mighty oaks. They even have a grove of some 15 redwoods. And though they live on ...