Article: Small things considered At Bonsai West, it's the little things that matter

Michael Levin is trying to carry on a dying tradition.

No pun intended.

On behalf of everyone who has ever killed a Bonsai tree, Levin hopes he can convince those who love the look of the dwarfed and sculpted plants that caring for them is not as difficult as they might think. You just have to know when to water them, when to store them in the basement, when to sit them outdoors and how to prune them. "Everyone knows someone who's killed a bonsai," says Levin, owner of Bonsai West in Littleton, a nursery with one of the largest collections of miniature trees in the country, some of which are hundreds of years old. "We're working 24 hours a day to change the perception that they're hard to ...

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