The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Harold Sasaki wants to dispel some myths about bonsai: that they’re hard to grow, for example. “Most often, a ...

Little, tiny trees have been a very big deal for a very long time. Bonsai, those intricately groomed dwarf trees in handsome pots, date back centuries. Their loyalists see them as symbols of patience, ...

A unique museum in Tokyo’s Edogawa district has hundreds of dwarf trees or known as bonsai, which is mastered by Japanese bonsai artists for 800 years. This is a very unique museum in Tokyo’s Edogawa ...

The Asian art of Bonsai offers an alternative to the scarcity of winter. Dwarf Yaupon Holly in the Chinese penjing style, which seeks to shape trees of unusual character to aesthetic principles. This ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan will celebrate its 10-year-old garden of bonsai and penjing trees with a month of events in June. Starting June 1, the university’s Matthaei Botanical ...

Twenty-two years ago, I was walking trough a commercial wholesale nursery searching for just the right trees for a special project I was working on. Along with several other plants, I purchased a ...

Paleobotanists put dwarf, bonsai pine trees in growth chambers and subjected them to up to 13 times the UV-B radiation Earth experiences today, simulating conditions that likely existed 252 million ...

A hobbit jade bonsai shaped by Hal Sasaki. Photo by Theo Stroomer. The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Harold “Hal” Sasaki’s hands move with ...

The lock that’s always cracked with a hairpin. The slow walk away from a car engulfed in flames. The bonsai perched on a CEO’s desk on the 45th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, where he contemplates ...

Bonsai gardens offer peace and creativity. You can grow tiny trees in pots, shaping them like forests. Native Indian trees are perfect for this. Peepal, Banyan, and Imli are ideal choices. Use a ...