forest bonsai

I am finding a lot of ERC popping up in my little back garden. I've potted three of them, and I just noticed a few more sprouts. It seems to me like a perfect opportunity to do a forest, but I really have no idea how to begin. I realize there are several videos, of which I intend to watch...

I am planning to develop a big zelkova serrata forest (tallest tree to be 50 cm or 20 inches at least) which will be something like the forest bonsai by Vaughn Bantingburch below. For that I bought 5 zelkova saplings at the first week of this May. I made a trench in the garden with a depth of...

This is my first ever forest planting. I ordered these off eBay and was worried because it took 8 days to arrive. They came to me bare-rooted wrapped in damp paper towels in plastic bags. Surprisingly all were still moist and all of them just pushing buds. This is certainly my last repot of the...

I have a collection of small spruce trees I collect as saplings from Talkeetna, AK a couple years ago. I would love to turn some/all of these into a forest. I’m not entirely sure what size pot/ type of pot I should get for them. Any advice from anyone out there who has done this before would be...

Four years ago @Mike Hennigan sent over some Crab Apple seedlings he’d sprouted from trees in Ithaca NY. We were excited as this would be the second forest experiment here Spindly Sticks in a Pot! In March 2020 the seedlings arrived from Mike. We promptly planted these in a large training...

Over the past two years I’ve been picking up Ezo Spruce seedlings from Bill V and doing a review dive on creation of forests. Key readings, but not the only ones, for those who are interested were. Forest, Rock Planting and Ezo Spruce Bonsai, Saburo Kato (Luckily I scored a loaner!) Int’l...