Le Monde.fr

Has the art of bonsai trees grown too big for its own good?

An 800-year-old bonsai during a bonsai exhibition at Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, Japan, on November 24, 2023 ZHANG XIAOYU / XINHUA VIA AFP The Japanese art of bonsai is attracting growing interest.
The Hindu

Please take care of my bonsai trees: A Japanese cultivator’s plea to the thieves

A Japanese cultivator of bonsai trees appealed on Tuesday for the thieves who made off with his expensive potted plants to take good care of them. Seiji Iimura, a fifth-generation bonsai cultivator ...
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‘Like raising children’: Bonsai master expanding the Japanese art with Australian fig trees

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. Megumi ...
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'Please pour water on them': Bonsai tree owner's plea to thief who stole his plants

A Japanese cultivator of bonsai trees appealed on Tuesday for the thief who made off with his expensive potted plants to take good care of them. Seiji Iimura, a fifth-generation bonsai cultivator who ...