Prime

Shaping time: Kenya's growing bonsai culture

Bonsai Plants pictured at Planty Kenya plant shop in Karen, Nairobi on June 27, 2025.

Photo credit: Bonface Bogita | Nation Media Group

By  Linet Owoko

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

About 15 years ago, Miriam Chege walked into a plant shop. What she found there changed her perspective on trees forever.

“I saw these small trees that looked ancient,” she recalls.

Related

PAYE Tax Calculator

Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.

Get it First!

Stay up to date on the editors' picks of the week.

Latest

  1. PRIME Board voting lessons from Tata Sons saga

  2. PRIME M-Pesa, Airtel Money must report all mobile cash theft to CBK

  3. PRIME Why Kenya is unlikely to ink a new IMF deal before 2027 polls

  4. PRIME Affordable credit: Kenya’s impact debt opportunity hiding in plain sight

In the headlines

View All