GARDENING Creating bonsai trees not as simple as manicuring a shrub Little trees offer a big payoff — in joy and fulfillment — for members of the Austin Bonsai Society. For Candy Hansen and her… ...

Bonsai plants are miniature trees that are grown in small containers and trained to take on a specific shape or form. Creating a bonsai plant is a rewarding hobby that requires patience, attention ...

Now, Wang earns between 1.5 to 2 million yuan every year. "Growing bonsai trees is like drawing. It's an art," he says. The younger generation is also joining the trade. Liu Xiaofei, 35, started ...

Bonsai is an art form that requires years of training and centuries of dedication. At the 2012 international bonsai convention, a tree was on sale for 100 million yen, just under a million dollars.

An artist has shown tree-mendous patience twisting and turning copper wire 1,000 times to make these intricate bonsai plants. Ken To, 39, spends between three and 12 hours making each tree, which ...

CHENGDU -- Inside the White Bear Bonsai Garden, located in Chongzhou city in Southwest China's Sichuan province, Chad Sinclair, 46, is fully engrossed in tending to dozens of bonsai trees in the ...

The Indianapolis Bonsai Club was founded in 1968 to promote interest in and appreciation of the Japanese art form, which uses techniques to produce small trees that mimic the shape and scale of ...

People might think growing bonsai is unnatural, when in reality it's simply a way to train garden plants and trees. When you look at a bonsai tree, the slant of the branches, the leaning of the ...

KANUMA, Tochigi Prefecture--A wave of thefts of bonsai miniature potted trees across Japan appear tied to an overseas boom that offers high profits from resale, according to experts.