Hugh Grant (not Wonka’s Oompa Loompa, but a strapping lad from Sydney’s northern beaches) discovered bonsai around the age of nine or 10. He’d been watching the ABC’s Gardening Australia when a segment on the Japanese art of growing and styling trees in miniature pots piqued his interest. Today, aged 29 and based in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, he is a respected master and member of a growing global community impassioned by a practice that translates literally as “planted in a container”.