Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens is receiving a transformational gift of 150 masterpieces. But these aren’t your typical works of art—they’re bonsai trees, and they come from Doug Paul’s Kennett ...
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. — If you are fascinated by the art of bonsai or just enjoy gazing upon these beautiful "miniature trees" you'll love the latest addition to Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens. They ...
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 ...
The bonsai garden is almost tucked away, in the back of the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, in the northeastern corner of Ann Arbor. With a wooden fence around it, one opening ...
NEW YORK » Many people have a bonsai story: a first bonsai, a struggling bonsai. And many of these stories do not end happily, at least for the bonsai. But the best bonsai stories are about passion ...
At 390 years old, the Japanese white pine was already notable as the oldest specimen in the bonsai collection at Washington, D.C.’s National Arboretum. Then, in 2001, two brothers showed up at the ...
Many people have a bonsai story: a first bonsai, a struggling bonsai. And many of these stories do not end happily, at least for the bonsai. But the very best bonsai stories are about passion and ...
An orchid that recently was awarded the American Orchid Society’s Certificate of Cultivation Excellence is among specimens displayed in “Orchid and Bonsai Show: An Ocean of Color,” running through ...
Visitors tour the Clark Bonsai Collection, on display at Woodward Park’s Shinzen Garden. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] Bonsai, an ancient Japanese art form of miniaturizing trees, is about ...
A 250-year-old Sargent juniper from Saitama City, Japan. The plant stands 28 inches tall. Courtesy of Jonathan Singer. Three years ago, I was introduced to Jonathan Singer, a podiatrist from Bayonne, ...
Where would you find a 1,000-year-old bonsai next door to a veritable ark of rhododendrons, all on land owned by a company focused on wood products? In Federal Way, of course, adjacent to Weyerhaeuser ...