SAN DIEGO — An iconic Japanese garden in Balboa Park is asking for San Diego’s help in finding an irreplaceable bonsai tree that was stolen on Sunday. The Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Several valuable bonsai trees were stolen from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland in a bizarre burglary. The location is a volunteer-run, free admission Japanese ...

Every tree has a story. For trees in the wild, it's an honest memoir, a narrative of generous summers and lean winters, wind, fire, lightning strikes, beetle infestations. A bonsai's story, though, is ...

The right tree can change the landscape. Just look at what's happened outside the Portland Japanese Garden's Pavilion. With Mount Hood and the city skyline as a backdrop, five bonsai are displayed on ...

St. Helena artist Phoebe Ellsworth has wonderful memories of playing in her grandparents’ Japanese tea garden as a little girl. A century-old Japanese bonsai, a miniature green Atlas cedar that was ...

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 ...

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.

Alameda’s Jonas Dupuich is a giant in the world of bonsai — he teaches and lectures and runs the popular Bonsai Tonight blog, and his book, “The Little Book of Bonsai,” was published last year by Ten ...