Root Over Rock Style (?)

El Dolo

Regarding this style, I know you plant the tree on a rock, and then bury it for a couple years, gradually bringing the soil line down. I've read, and seen posts, that you should use Raffia (I think) to stick the roots into the crevices of the stone. I know this is the best way to do it, but if you simply planted the tree directly over an odly shaped stone, would the effect be somewhat the same? I repotted a precumbens with a nice, odly shaped stone right up against the bottom of the root mass, quite close to the base of the trunk. In a few years when I look, do you think this tree will ever grasp the stone?

-Roy-

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TreeBay

It's a common mistake to put the roots into the crevices. Once the crevices fill up, there is no interest left to the stone. Some roots can go in crevices, but be sure to take some across the high points, too!

If you are just dropping the plant on top, unless it is a strangler fig or some kind of clinging vine, I doubt you will succeed in getting a convincing illusion of the roots grasping anything.

Good luck,

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