and lava rock. You can also purchase pre-mixed bonsai soil from your local nursery. Juniper bonsai trees require frequent watering, but you should never allow the soil to become waterlogged.

but you can create a redwood forest in miniature right on a slab of rock. Although bonsai may seem intimidating, it's easy as long as you take the time to care for your trees. Here’s how you can ...

which has around 3,000 bonsai trees. Also abducted were three miniature pine trees, called goyomatsus, and a trio of less-valuable shimpaku, a juniper tree which is now rare in the wild.

Many of these trees are so rare they are almost mythical." The California juniper shown here is estimated ... Instructions for achieving the "roots over rock" effect give insight to the work of a ...

Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner.

The bonsai trees in back of Bill Ward's Frank Welch-design house are, from left, a black pine, a juniper, three black pines and a Japanese live oak (Nan Coulter/Special Contributor) (Special ...