Celebration of bonsai switches to new site

For its 37th show, the Columbus Bonsai Society is changing venues.

Spartanburg man has longtime love of working with bonsai

Love at first sight is the best way to describe Dan O'Neal's attraction to bonsai trees.

24-Hour Room Service: Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Oxfordshire

It's easy to assume that an operation as distinguished as Le Manoir ticks by while quietly resting on the laurels of the restaurant and the reputation of its proprietor. Especially when that proprietor is Raymond Blanc, who attained the first of his Michelin stars at his original restaurant, Les Quat'Saisons in Oxford back in the late 1970s.

Showy and attractive

SOMETIME ago, I came across some small trees that bore velvety red flowers in the housing enclave where I live. The trees are so striking and beautiful, how I wished I knew their names. They have curvaceous trunks and crooked branches that looked like those of a bonsai tree.

Green Scene: A Japanese garden's natural serenity

The objective of a Japanese garden is to establish a space that creates a mood of serenity and symbolism inspired by nature, designed in a very controlled fashion. Typically this includes the use of rocks, gravel, water, statuary, bridges, wood and some plants that appear to be hundreds of years old. In a traditional Japanese garden, elements are representational of nature in human proportions ...