When eight miniature trees disappeared from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt in Oakland in mid-January, a sense of despair descended on the volunteer-run exhibit. The trees were living masterpieces, ...

Moses Weisberg was walking his bicycle through the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington when he stopped at a mushroom-shaped tree. The first thing he noticed was the thickness of the trunk, ...

WASHINGTON — In a small, arboreal corner of Washington, D.C., a relic of a horrific day 70 years ago lives in relative obscurity. A bonsai tree, part of a collection at the National Arboretum, came to ...