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 ...

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

Japan’s signature bonsai trees — precisely pruned and carefully manipulated by long-trained artisans — have become so popular, they are increasingly being targeted for theft and trafficking. Bonsai ...

KANUMA, Tochigi Prefecture--A wave of thefts of bonsai miniature potted trees across Japan appear tied to an overseas boom that offers high profits from resale, according to experts. In many cases, ...

A Japanese couple whose 400-year-old bonsai tree was stolen have issued a public plea to the thieves begging them to water the delicate plant. For decades, the miniature juniper “has been shaped, ...

Bonsai trees are a wonder of nature bent by the hand of man. But before your love for these works of living art prompt you to plunk down some yen and take one or three home, take note. This small ...

There’s a lot of talk about Japan’s cultural exports of anime and manga, but perhaps one of the most prevalent and enduring of them has been bonsai trees. The method of shaping vegetative life itself ...

The living sculptures of bonsai (pronounced bone-sigh, Japanese for tree in a tray or pot) are potted plants that are intentionally dwarfed by pruning the branches and roots, then shaped to resemble ...

Sydney-based Japanese bonsai master Megumi Bennett currently grows more than 300 bonsai pots, which she lovingly refers to as her "children". Roughly half of them are Australian fig trees. Megumi ...

A 400-year-old bonsai tree worth more than $50,000 vanished from a gardener's collection outside Tokyo, one of several valuable plants stolen last month from a fifth-generation bonsai master. Now the ...