Here are some tips on how to grow and care for a Chinese Banyan Bonsai tree. Chinese Banyan trees, also known as Ficus microcarpa, are popular bonsai trees due to their interesting aerial root ...

Bonsai can be made from just about any long-lived plant that will cooperate, usually a shrub or tree. You'll find bonsai made of juniper, azalea, jade, various Asian pines, figs, Japanese maples ...

The tree pictured here is a Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa), a common beginner’s bonsai thanks to its hearty nature and an indoor-friendly cousin of the Milanese masterpiece. It grows natively ...

I have a cedar elm bonsai on my terrace that exactly mirrors the winter wood of native cedar elms towering over my garden. However, banyan ficus, tea trees, and snow roses join a dozen other major ...

The little bonsai was an angry young tree. He hated his potted existence and his dwarfish appearance. He felt small and confined before the majestic banyan that grew in the sprawling mansion of a ...

My little banyan tree had grown into a bonsai. However, it was not alone. A peepal and a jolly bougainvillea permanently in bloom made a happy trio in my small verandah. In the course of my ...

banyan, ficus aurea, is another name for strangler fig or golden fig and is one of only two native ficus species in Florida (ficus citrifolia, the short leaf fig, is the other). It is one of the ...

The mention of ‘Ficus' will bring to everybody's mind, the Banyan Tree in all its magnificence ... Many Ficuses are popular Bonsai choices due to the pliability of trunks and branches and ...

They treat these bonsai plants like their own children ... including 25 from sub-group of ficus species like peepal and banyan using the popular Japanese art form. 73-year-old Sohanlal Dwivedi ...