Slant style, or Shakan, bonsai are similar to the straight trunks of formal upright trees, but the trunk emerges from the soil at an angle, and the apex of the bonsai will extend to the left or ...

The Asian art of Bonsai offers an alternative to the scarcity of winter. Dwarf Yaupon Holly in the Chinese penjing style, which seeks to shape trees of unusual character to aesthetic principles ...

The Japanese have cultivated a great many of their native plants for bonsai. Most of them are pine tree styles, such as the classical Japanese White Pine (Pinus parviflora).

You’ll see that there are bonsai styles that are more upright and grow straight, some that cascade. You can have them grow to cling to rocks and different kinds of little miniature groves that ...

The bonsai is just one of 53 trees in a collection at the arboretum. Bonsai masters designed each tree to evoke a certain kind of emotion, weight and style, according to Michael James, an ...

A tree planted in a bonsai pot is not a bonsai until it has been pruned, shaped and trained into a desired style. Once that stage is reached, the bonsai must be pinched, clipped, rewired and ...

The right tree can change the landscape. Just look at what's happened outside the Portland Japanese Garden's Pavilion with "American Bonsai: The Unbridled Art of Ryan Neil," which runs from May 21 ...