As it is repot time of year, and I have decided to pot anything with any potential into nicer pots, they have come off the bench and given a new direction. There are probably enough trunks to call them a "forest" but they are at least a "group" (and it has been an opportunity to use some of my collected rocks).
Unfortunatly, moving plants into better pots has made room for more cuttings to be potted on into plastic pots so I still have a stack of "starters" in the wings
(could be a propogation addiction).
. I've always collected rocks that could be used in "Root over Rock" compositions and with fine enough detail to be "believable" in a bonsai (potensai) setting, creating groups and forests incorporating rocks has justified the aray that adorns the top of a retaining wall near the shadehouse 
. I'm also using more of my smaller material to try to create compositions that I will be able to lift in the future 
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- that said, I have round maintaining them is tricky … I lost a Japanese maple first to over-watering (I think) but as a general rule, these groups of trees suck up water a a quick rate and thus I am loving natives as some seem to have and insatiable desire for water and are forgiving.
