FRESNO, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – Volunteers at the Clark Bonsai Museum have been preserving trees in Fresno for 10 years, but volunteers say the trees themselves have a deeper history than most visitors even know about.
Managing Curator Bob Hilvers says he has been doing bonsai for the past 40 years – and he still has to explain to visitors that bonsai is not a kind of tree.
“It’s a common misnomer on folks’ part that bonsai is a species of plant, Hilvers said. “It’s actually an art form that uses plants as the medium.”…