Monterey >> The key to bonsai is patience. But that shouldn’t be much of a surprise. This is an art form, after all, in which trees can be 500 years old, passed down from generation to generation.

Bonsai is an art form that requires years of training. Bonsai trees take centuries to grow and can be considered completely priceless.

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 ...

At Lions Field on a recent weeknight, Bryan Banks leaned over his black pine bonsai tree like Paul Bunyan without his ax. Around him, other members of the San Antonio Bonsai Society towered over their ...

A trip to the Denver Botanic Gardens 35 year ago sparked Gordon Van Wechel’s interest in bonsai. His wife bought him a pot and a tree, and Van Wechel was on his way. “I thought I would go from zero to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Darren George runs the YouTube channel Gro Bonsai, where he restores and maintains bonsai trees. He shows us how he restores an overgrown bonsai tree. This includes ...

Years ago I used to climb into the High Sierras to drink wine and hunt rare wild bonsai trees. In the high country, an extreme regimen of wind, snow, drought and impossibly thin soils create nature's ...

TOKYO — For decades, a prized, 400-year-old Japanese bonsai tree has been shaped, watered and cared for with all of the precision needed for a priceless piece of art. In the wrong hands, it could die ...

Less than three days after they were stolen, two valuable bonsai trees were returned to a museum in Washington. The bonsai trees were “mysteriously” returned to the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal ...