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.

A selection of bonsai trees in decorative ceramic planters for sale at a nursery. - Helga Arina/Shutterstock The practice of bonsai fuses art and gardening into a delightful pastime. It's more than a ...

Q: This is a 25-year-old jade bonsai (see reader's photo). Recently the very top of the plant has taken on a somewhat grizzled look with smaller deformed leaves and scarred, redder-looking stems ...

To the uninitiated, bonsai are a novelty. Gazing at these pint-sized trees, one might utter a heartfelt but uninspired, "Isn't that cute," or, "Look at that!" But to those who have walked through the ...

For bonsai lovers, little trees create a path to a big world of discovery. Their twisted branches connect people across oceans and continents, linking them with an ancient art. “You never finish a ...

MEMBERS of Johannesburg Garden Club were treated to an extremely interesting talk on the art of Bonsai, by guest speaker Byron Dance, at the March meeting. Byron explained that ‘bon’ means low sided ...

An Instagram influencer and other experts say bonsai, the Japanese art of cultivating small trees, can be a tool of conservation.