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- From: cczcole@mips.nott.ac.uk (Marlon Cole)
- Newsgroups: alt.bonsai
- Subject: Re: Is anybody there????
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.144605.23498@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:46:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.041304.20616@netcom.com> <1jk116INN3bj@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1jk116INN3bj@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, tmkelly@shootist.EBay.Sun.COM (Thomas McCabe Kelly) writes:
- |> In article 20616@netcom.com, aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelyn Aldridge) writes:
- |> >
- |> > I'd like to plant a grove of some kind of tree. Does anyone have
- |> > any ideas about this. Should I choose a deep pot or something shallower. I
- |> > don't mind if it's 20+ inches wide since I like large, scenic bonsai.
- |> >
- |> They do not require deeper pots than normal, in fact, I believe it is
- |> the opposite... generally (not for all species necessarily) the pot is
- |> relatively shallow.
- |>
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- Just a quick tuppenth worth at this point - some of the best group plantings
- I've seen both in the flesh ("in the bark"?) and in books have involved the
- container not being a pot at all, but a slab of rock of some sort, for
- instance a piece of slate. Alternatively (and probably cheaper :-), I've even
- seen a planting on a cross-section of a tree trunk (cut about an inch thick,
- and at an angle so that it's oval-shaped rather than round).
- Being a flat container the soil, roots, moss, etc. must then be built up
- from that base and thus appears as a hump or dome with a bunch of trees on
- top. This gives a very pleasing impression of a copse on a hilltop and has a
- very natural feel to it.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- marlon
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