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bonsaiTALK Adept
Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: Aptos, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 215
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Japanese Garden Maple “Acer palmatum” forest on a slab
I removed from the trees the pots by matching type and arranged them from largest to smallest for use in the planting (forest 3). I placed the trees on the slate at the chosen locations and began to work in the soil. (forest 4; please excuse the busy background of the garage). I used the broken pieces of the slate from the shaping process to build up the outside of the planting and hold in the soil. I put “peat muck” between the layers of slate pieces and around the outside of the planting to hold in the soil. After the plants have been placed moss was gathered and placed on the soil surface to further stabilize the soil.
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