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Bonsai, a horticultural art that hails from ancient China, endures as a popular hobby and art form. Bonsai refers to the craft of cultivating, shaping, and maintaining trees so they represent both ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...