Roy Yamashiroya’s Salt Lake home features dozens of bonsai, including fruiting plants such as tangerine, Meyer lemon, calamansi, lime and starfruit trees. He uses aluminum wire to shape the plants.

With their strange shapes and unusual textures, succulents arealready eye-catching flora. And when trained as bonsai, they becomeeven more intriguing. They are so arresting, in fact, that when Vista ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. JANE EDMANSON: Hao Ho creates beautiful bonsai. He is a master of manipulation. He displays and works ...

Dating back thousands of years in China and Japan, the ancient art of bonsai has long captivated gardeners. Indeed, growing ...

Bonsai is an ancient Japanese practice of growing miniature trees in small containers using techniques like pruning and wiring. Originating from China, it was refined by the Japanese. Bonsai trees ...

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 ...

The contemplative beauty of bonsai returns to Sonoma Botanical Garden this winter with an indoor exhibit featuring works by artisans with the Redwood Empire Bonsai Society. “The Bonsai Show: Wood and ...

When eight miniature trees disappeared from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland in mid-January, a sense of despair descended on the volunteer-run exhibit. The trees were living masterpieces, ...