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Express press service The cramped neighborhood of Rohini in West Delhi, home to tall buildings and tiny balconies, includes a terrace that houses hundreds of small bonsai trees, adding greenery to the cityscape. The…

MAngat Singh Thakur, an 80-year-old retired banker from Rohini, Delhi, was in his 40s when bonsai was first introduced to India in the late 1970s.This, he notes, was thanks to the efforts of Nikunj and Jyoti Parekh, who founded the Bonsai…

In the 1383 nostyle game potted treesby Japanese poet Zaemi Motokiyo, a poor samurai offers to throw his last three bonsai trees on the fire to warm a traveling monk. That this small act struck contemporary audiences as profoundly noble…

While flowers may seem like an obvious choice for budding gardeners, bonsai trees can help add a sense of calm to your home. These plants have long been associated with the art of bonsai originating in China in 221 BC.The ancient art of…

Photo: TONG2519 (Shutterstock)When you hear the phrase "a bonsai" you are probably thinking of these tiny, ornate trees that people often keep as a kind of desktop ornament. But In fact, Bonsai is not a type of tree at all - the "B" word!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…

MEERUT: For this close-knit urban group, Bonsai is more than just growing miniature plants. What started as a simple pastime for an individual has now turned into a kind of meditation for the whole group, which teaches the value of…

Don't throw away that little Banyan tree you find under your water tank or on a cracked wall, it could make a good bonsai,” advises Jaya P Nair, a bonsai enthusiast and secretary of the Kerala Bonsai Association. One is inclined to heed…

Express press service KUMTA: He's not looking at the trees, he's looking down. A retired forestry officer, who had mastered the art of “bonsai” cultivation techniques, experimented and educated people about…

Imagine having a miniature cannabis plant that you could simply put in your window, with pretty green branches emerging from its artistically spiraling center. Sounds pretty amazing, right? It's the cannabis bonsai…

Bonsai cultivation is complicated. It can take six years or more to create a bonsai from a tree purchased from a nursery or scavenged from the wild. But after all this work and time, some trees grow and die for no apparent reason. In…

It's not every day you get to interview a monk. And it's even rarer to interview him about bonsai. But Brother Gerard Gross has been in charge of bonsai cultivation at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit for twelve years, so he seems like…

"Bonsai is actually two words, 'Bon' and 'Sai'. The word 'Bon' means 'plateau' and 'Sai' means 'growth' or 'plantation'. Therefore, the two words put together give you the translation of "tray culture" or "tray planting". When you say…