74-year-old retired government employee, Sohanlal Dwivedi, has spent 40 years on bonsai gardening, cultivating 40 plant varieties, including 25 ficus species like peepal and banyan on his terrace.

The former government official attributed his wide collection of pot-grown trees to his love for travelling. Wherever he came across a new variety of a plant or tree, he brought it home and worked to ...