Mindful pruning, ancient wisdom and therapeutic gardening converge as millennials embrace the centuries-old art of bonsai ...

Ficus Retusa, also known as the Banyan Fig, is a popular species for bonsai because of its attractive foliage, ease of care, ...

My favorite bonsai tree is easy to choose as I only have experience with one variety, which I've had for about five years now ...

How to Train Your Bonsai Tree. Growing a bonsai isn’t as hard as you think, says this Denver bonsai master. Joe Lindsey ... be stunning, with patient work. But they’re surprisingly resilient plants, ...

Joanne Dhody and her ficus tree during the MidAtlantic Bonsai Societies’ Spring Festival at Holiday Inn Harrisburg in Grantville on Friday, April 11, 2025. LOGAN GEHMAN | Staff Photographer.

Sydney-based Japanese bonsai master Megumi Bennett currently grows more than 300 bonsai pots, which she lovingly refers to as her "children". Roughly half of them are Australian fig trees.

The Asian art of Bonsai offers an alternative to the scarcity of winter. Dwarf Yaupon Holly in the Chinese penjing style, which seeks to shape trees of unusual character to aesthetic principles ...

A reader recently asked me to write about bonsai tree requirements, but more specifically, how to keep bonsai trees alive during the seasons. Let’s begin with a brief history of Bonsai, which in ...

A ficus tree bonsai in Crespi, Italy is estimated to be 1,000 years old. That’s many years of frequent, meticulous pruning to retain the proper size and shape. Loving beautiful things, the ...

On the way home, he took a detour after seeing a sign that read "Sarasota Bonsai Gardens," where he bought two books and a bonsai tree for $175 (that works out to a not-insignificant $1,300 today ...