Today, more than three decades later, the student is fulfilling that legacy, and in a major way. Che is specialist gardener for the penjing court, the Verdant Microcosm, in the newly expanded Chinese ...

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has approved a new concept design for the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum. Located within the U.S. National Arboretum’s Core, the ...

Something ancient and new is visiting the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers through April 27: 10 examples of the Chinese art of penjing. This art is ancestral to bonsai but less known in North ...

The first Guizhou Penjing Expo is ongoing at Guizhou Botanical Garden in Guiyang, Guizhou province, through Aug 25. Nearly 1,000 potted landscapes, by enthusiasts from all over Guizhou are displayed.

Read a story I wrote when the garden opened in 2000. The name was then Portland Classical Chinese Garden. Miniature gardens are one of the year's top -- if not top -- trends of the year. One small ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Penjing is the Chinese art of miniaturising trees and potting landscapes. Although miniature trees are ...

As an admirer of this ancient art, and it truly is an art, two of my favorite exhibits to visit during Epcot's International Flower and Garden Show feature Japan's bonsai (pronounced "bone sigh") and ...

This potted history of the ancient art of penjing (Chinese bonsai), by expert practitioner Chao Qingquan, is concise and descriptive, offering an easy introduction for those unfamiliar with the ...

The Huntington's resident penjing artist, Che Zhao Sheng, in the newly expanded Chinese Garden at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. (Josie Norris / Los Angeles ...

Penjing is the Chinese art of miniaturising trees and potting landscapes. Although miniature trees are often associated with Zen Buddhism and Japan they actually originate in China over two thousand ...