The bonsai tree that would wind up in the office of CIA Director Gina C. Haspel began its life growing in the salty swamps of southern Florida. That’s where it was collected 30 years ago by Mary ...

WASHINGTON — In a small, arboreal corner of Washington, D.C., a relic of a horrific day 70 years ago lives in relative obscurity. A bonsai tree, part of a collection at the National Arboretum ...

The tree, a part of the Arboretum’s National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, has not only navigated the perils of age to become the collection’s oldest, but it also survived the blast of an atomic ...