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 ...

Established in 1982, the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C. will be revitalized as part of a larger master plan update developed by Reed Hilberbrand Architects. (Courtesy of Design ...

Photographer Stephen Voss spends most of his days bouncing between rushed portrait sessions and heavily scrutinized PR-commissioned shoots in Washington, D.C. It’s unusual for him to have more than a ...

Note: Due to the discovery of boxwood blight, the arboretum has closed its Boxwood Collection and adjacent Perennials Collection in order to prevent spread of the disease. It is closed until further ...

“It’s a little hidden secret here in D.C. It’s really a nice place to come with a friend.” Michael James is talking about the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, for which he serves as an assistant ...

Stephen Voss was a student at the George Washington University when he first encountered bonsai trees nearly 20 years ago at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C. “Initially, I was ...

At 390 years old, the Japanese white pine was already notable as the oldest specimen in the bonsai collection at Washington, D.C.’s National Arboretum. Then, in 2001, two brothers showed up at the ...

In Japan it's bonsai. In China, it's penjing. And here in the United States, there's a growing fascination with these small wonders of nature crafted by man. Here's Rita Braver: In the midst of our ...

When bonsai experts describe one of their miniature creations, they don’t talk about when it was planted. They talk about how long it’s been “in training.” That’s the year the painstaking process of ...