WESTSIDE — For my birthday a few years ago my wife surprised me by giving me an odd looking shrub. She couldn't have been more excited, but I have been. She explained that the weird bush was the ...

Kathy Shaner, the first non-Japanese and first woman certified as a professional bonsai artist and instructor by the Nippon Bonsai Association of Japan, doesn’t have much time to talk. The tiny trees ...

For more than 50-years, a tiny movement has grown in the East Bay thanks to Dennis Makishima.

HILO, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Some people see bonsai trees as symbols of harmony, balance, or patience. Others view them as the objects of meditation. A Big Island bonsai master says this botanical ...

Guy Guidry's new Uptown nursery isn't very big - it's about 1,000 square feet - but then, neither are the trees that are its specialty. "NOLA Bonsai will promote bonsai to a new level," says Guidry, ...

John Nielsen, a certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture, will present “Bonsai Tree Cultivation” when the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society meets 7 p.m. Thursday ...

In the Japanese language, bonsai means tree in pot. However, bonsai are much more than just potted trees. Bonsai is a living art form. There are many rules on designing trees to give the look of age.

The gift of 53 bonsai trees from Japan to the U.S. in 1975, 30 years after WWII. In 1975, only 30 years after the United States and Japan have been at war, Japan gave 53 priceless bonsai trees to the ...