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 ...

John Nielsen, a certified arborist from Redlands, will present a program on raising bonsai when the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Redlands ...

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 ...

During a recent gathering of the Bonsai Society of Portland’s open studio workshop, dozens of people gathered at the Milwaukie Community Center with shears, wires and even toothbrushes to shape and ...

For bonsai grower Randy Bennett, practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice does, however, keep the miniature trees alive to see another day. Bonsai is the Japanese art of growing ornamental, ...

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 ...