Last January I found that some Japanese Sacred Bamboo growing around my little water feature in the garden had self-sown and germinated a few babies. I dug them up and planted them in a large black plastic pot to see how the would do, and was rewarded.
So today I decided they were attractive enough to put into a pot. I've had a piece of shale lying around for a while so I incorporated that into the planting as well. There is plenty of moss growing around the little water feature which also has a small waterfall on a timer, keeping the micro ecosystem damp and humid. Some of this moss was also used, though in the past I have found it dies off a bit before re-growing after being peeled off the rocks.
The result is the small group planting in these pics. It's my first attempt at a group planting and would appreciate any comments that would help me improve my next one. I'm aware that the pot is very deep for the size of the trees, but I used this pot deliberately to facilitate watering. I'm a bonsai grower, but I also have other interests which means sometimes the pots not on the bonsai shelf do not get watered as regularly as they should
and the deeper pots buffer my watering inconsistency somewhat.Growing in the moss is a very small seedling from a tree I planted years ago , can't remember the name, but it's a native. this prompts the question why do we not see group plantings of mixed species in bonsai?
