The post keeps them from tipping over and are just anchors for temporary embellishment, like for a show. It allows you to use a rock that is not big enough to partly bury and/or you don't need to have the space to hold a rock. Most trees have very little soil above the roots, just a scrim of soil that barely supports moss, and certainly not enough to partially bury a rock, even a flat one. I can use a very flat rock less than a quarter inch thick that gives the impression of a large buried stone, or of an escarpment, especially effective immediately adjacent to a surface root. They won't just sit there, you need to anchor them and this helps them nestle down into the moss. It contributes to the reduced scale of the whole display. I lean towards the "miniature landscape" of penjing as opposed to "this is a tree in a pot" bonsai camp.I’m not quite following yet.
Does the rock attach to the bottom of the pot and become a permanent part of the pot? And......Tree roots grow around it? Is a post used so the rock is not just plunked down on the soil surface subject to shifting or falling over.....because it now has a post stuck to the rock base?
Why wouldn’t someone just put the rock on the surface and slightly bury it with the substrate?
Not negative.....just trying to follow the idea.
All right, then. If that’s your goal, carry on.I lean towards the "miniature landscape" of penjing as opposed to "this is a tree in a pot" bonsai camp.
Ahhhhhh........Thanks. Now I’m following and understand.The post keeps them from tipping over and are just anchors for temporary embellishment, like for a show. It allows you to use a rock that is not big enough to partly bury and/or you don't need to have the space to hold a rock. Most trees have very little soil above the roots, just a scrim of soil that barely supports moss, and certainly not enough to partially bury a rock, even a flat one. I can use a very flat rock less than a quarter inch thick that gives the impression of a large buried stone, or of an escarpment, especially effective immediately adjacent to a surface root. They won't just sit there, you need to anchor them and this helps them View attachment 279599nestle down into the moss. It contributes to the reduced scale of the whole display. I lean towards the "miniature landscape" of penjing as opposed to "this is a tree in a pot" bonsai camp.
Actually, a wider but shallow pot retains more water than a less wide and deeper pot.The aesthetic result is more natural and harmonious when the tree is slender and feminine with shallow pots but watering becomes more problematic , there is less margin for error in hot weather .
As a precaution , i avoid taking very shallow pots , i think they are more for experts .