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 ...

Make sure you don't salute the emperor. That's lesson No. 1 when you enter the bonsai garden at the home of Caroline and Fred Wieland. “'Bonsai' comes from two Japanese words, one meaning container ...

My mother’s first fashion tip was “Never wear stripes with plaids!” They simply don’t match. As I journeyed through my life in design, I discovered that sometimes you could blend stripes with plaids.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its world-class bonsai collection with “Bonsai 100,” a new exhibition opening on Saturday. It all started back in 1925, when ...

In 1925, Ernest F. Coe, a landscape designer and nurseryman from Connecticut, donated a collection of Japanese trees and shrubs to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Now, a century later, the garden is ...

Hugh Grant (not Wonka’s Oompa Loompa, but a strapping lad from Sydney’s northern beaches) discovered bonsai around the age of nine or 10. He’d been watching the ABC’s Gardening Australia when a ...

To the list of things that get better with age — wine, cheese, your always-gorgeous wife — add something else: bonsai trees. And on Friday, those hand-crafted wonders will be celebrated with a ...

On a the big zips, people muster their courage, hold on tight, and enjoy the ride. That's much the same as Bonsai Design has run their cool and wildly successful business so far. “We're really a ...

All three owners of Bonsai Design are Grand Valley residents who work hard and play hard in the outdoors. Thaddeus Shrader, 38, and Sarah Walker Shrader, 40, moved to Grand Junction in 2004 for work.