“Japanese maples are actually really, really good for bonsai because they tend to be more of a diminutive tree to begin with,” says Steve Pettis, commercial and consumer horticulture agent for the ...

A reader recently asked me to write about bonsai tree requirements, but more specifically, how to keep bonsai trees alive during the seasons. Let’s begin with a brief history of Bonsai, which in ...

Dating back thousands of years in China and Japan, the ancient art of bonsai has long captivated gardeners. Indeed, growing ...

The Louisiana Bonsai Society sponsored a Japanese maple bonsai workshop Feb. 11 at the Baton Rouge Garden Center in the Independence Park Botanic Gardens. Bennett is a world-class bonsai expert who ...