If you want instant gardening gratification, get a Chia Pet. If you're interested in an art form with roots that stretch back centuries with a practice that takes years, try bonsai. Bonsai (pronounced ...

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.

Christen Christian has been working with bonsai for more than three decades. She now has hundreds of plants at her Wilmington home and is the current president of the Cape Fear Bonsai Society. “There ...

With a collection of over 5,600 penjing pots, Nguyen Van Phung, 59, has the world’s largest collection of miniature bonsai trees. In his 4,000-square-meter garden in the beach town of Nha Trang in ...

As gardeners, so often our dream is to grow bigger plants faster. How many times have we stood over balky transplants and threatened, “Just grow, dammit!” The ancient art of bonsai is all about growth ...

Bonsai — the Japanese art of growing trees in pots — takes on a decidedly local flavor as Tucsonans experiment with native and other arid plants as their canvases. Randy McLean and Ray Noseck are two ...