Alicante’s first bonsai competition brought together award-winning miniature trees, enthusiasts, and experts for a free public exhibition celebrating the ancient art of bonsai.

There’s something about growing bonsai trees that makes big problems seem smaller. “That tree to me is not just a lone tree; it’s connected to all the other trees in the world,” said Wayne Atkinson, a ...

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

As a longtime member of the Santa Barbara Bonsai Club, Witham had a vested interest in promoting the bonsai cause. The club hosts meetings and workshops at Bethany Congregational Church and has about ...

Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner. Geisinger, a former ...

These are museum-class bonsais,” Ben Gaglioti says as we walk through an elfin forest. Gaglioti, a University of Alaska Fairbanks ecologist, has led me into another landscape I have never seen in ...