Grow and train a Japanese maple ... “If you use a white oak, which has the potential to get a hundred feet high, it takes a lot more work to manage than it does a bonsai tree that, in its ...

When Isabel Burley first delved into the world of bonsai a few years ago, she discovered a plethora of possibilities for ...

The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum marks the 400th anniversary of the Yamaki Pine, an ancient tree that survived the 1945 ...

The bonsai trees in back of Bill Ward's Frank Welch-design house are, from left, a black pine, a juniper, three black pines and a Japanese live ... trunks covered with white oak, hammocks slung ...

This bonsai was started more than 70 years ago, when Japanese American bonsai artist John Naka cut the top off a mature juniper tree and planted it in a pot. Over the next two decades, he ...

a Japanese white pine donated in 1976, that he was truly stunned. The tree, a part of the Arboretum’s National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, has not only navigated the perils of age to become the ...

Bonsai created ... extensive use of native trees such as California junipers and coast live oaks, a departure from traditionally favored Japanese species like black pine, cedar and maple.

Seiji Iimura walked into his garden the morning of Jan. 13 before noticing four pots missing among his collection of about 3,000 bonsai trees, according to Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper.

This pine’s irregular pyramid habit and billowing growth are reminiscent of a thunder cloud, while its silvery-white ... a bonsai. See the winter splendor of the Thunderhead Japanese black ...

A centuries-old bonsai that survived the bombing ... wish the attention were focused more on the tree's role in peace than in war. The Japanese white pine, which was potted 390 years ago, belonged ...