Click to open image viewer. With these five stamps, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates the beauty of bonsai. The word “bonsai” (Japanese for “plant in a pot”) refers to the art of cultivating ...

In Britain’s damp, changeable climate, your first tiny tree can decide whether bonsai becomes a calming ritual or a ...

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 ...

Q I have a large collection of bonsai trees that all require some degree of winterization: Evergreen conifers and cold-hardy deciduous broadleaf trees (oaks, maples, hackberry) get mulched-in outdoors ...

The bonsai garden is almost tucked away, in the back of the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, in the northeastern corner of Ann Arbor. With a wooden fence around it, one opening ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The living sculptures of bonsai (pronounced bone-sigh, Japanese for tree in a tray or pot) are potted plants that are ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan will celebrate its 10-year-old garden of bonsai and penjing trees with a month of events in June. Starting June 1, the university’s Matthaei Botanical ...