Sydney-based Japanese bonsai master Megumi Bennett currently grows more than 300 bonsai pots, which she lovingly refers to as her "children". Roughly half of them are Australian fig trees.

Plant a cherry tree. Prunus serrulata, the Japanese cherry tree known as sakura, covers Tokyo in pale pink snow every year ...

The cover of the picture book "Sakura ga Saku to ... when about 50% of the flowers have come into bloom is described in Japanese as "gobuzaki." Here, "gobu" means "50%" and zaki (an inflected ...