How about a pet plant for the new year? A touchable, vivid little conifer in a pot, resembling bonsai, can become a fun hobby as well as a favorite patio adornment. Bonsai enthusiasts may accuse me of ...

Years ago, I used to climb the High Sierras to drink wine and hunt rare wild bonsai trees. In the high country, an extreme regimen of wind, snow, drought and impossibly thin soils create nature’s ...

While Christmas tree growers certainly know their evergreens, identifying new revenue streams may be necessary for them to ...

Roger Snipes of the Inland Empire Bonsai Society prunes or defoliates leaves off a hedge maple he is training. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo For Roger Snipes, working with his ...