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4-Feb-2008
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bonsaiTALK Master
Join Date: Sep-2006
Location: Sydney
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Moss around trees
"The full, lush green of solid ground cover, to me, looks unnatural. Think about it...how often do you see a tree in nature with a solid green ground cover streaching from the trunk outward to.......................the edge of the pot" -- PatArizona, link |
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4-Feb-2008
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bonsaiTALK Expert
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Maybe not there, but here it's very natural. We have the ground around many trees covered with moss, as well as the rocks, stumps and down logs, and even on tree branches and roofs of homes.
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4-Feb-2008
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bonsaiTALK Neophyte
Join Date: Mar-2007
Location: Vancouver
Country: Canada
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depends where your from of course.
I can't speak for you, but here in vancouver bc canada, moss certainly grows on parts of the forest floor. crawling up trees.. .etc |
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5-Feb-2008
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I'm not sure it matters where you are. I doubt you'll ever see moss growing from a tree in nature, to the edge of the pot.
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5-Mar-2008
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Moss for the most part (depending on the type) is usually representative (symbolic) of grass. Remember we try and do things in scale. Of coarse in some situations moss is representative of moss.
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5-Mar-2008
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The key to the question is: If what you do, or what you have seen done does not look right then don't do it, do something better or something different. If you can find something better then by all means do it but in general most bonsai growers prefer some to a lot of moss on their trees. In the Japanese tradition there is a esoteric reason for moss having to do with customs and manners if I remember correctly.
Moss should be used to finish the display of the bonsai representing a tree in its natural setting. Keeping that in mind it is rather odd to present a gnarled, twisted broken up with drift wood style Juniper as though it were sitting in the fair-way of some golf course somewhere. In this Case the moss should be broken up and the soil element of the display dealt with in an artistic manner to reflect the plausible environment that produced the tree. On the other hand a Fir or group of Firs representing a coastal temperate rain forest could very convincingly have a lush carpet of moss underfoot and be believable.
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