TACOMA, Wash. — Up a flight of stairs in a historic building in Tacoma, a husband-and-wife team is introducing beginners to one of the world’s oldest horticultural art forms and sending them home with a living piece of it.
Bonsai Bai Me, a workshop studio with two locations in Utah and a third in Tacoma, guides participants through the process of transplanting, trimming and styling their own miniature trees.
“We take beginners who may have minimal plant experience, and we help them grow a bonsai tree from scratch, something that’s totally their own, something they get to develop and grow for the next hundred to 200 years,” said Preston Sonntag, who co-owns the business with his wife, McKenna…