"Mountain Slope Potting"?

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Does anyone know how one might pot a tree in such a way that it invokes the image of a tree actually growing on a mountain slope? - and I mean, with the soil actually being "sloped" and the and surface roots being slanted along the line of that slope... I imagine this might be easier with a more organic soil, but I'm interested in figuring out how one might do this with non-organic soil, particularly something like diatomite/diatomaceous earth, which seems to me would slowly "trickle" down the slope until the slope was no more and the tree's "uphill" roots were exposed.. just a random question..
 

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I suppose root-over-rock would be the easiest way to accomplish this, huh?
 

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Masahiko Kimura has created several Masterpiece Bonsai with a slope orientation. I believe he wired plastic window screen over Bonsai soil and followed with muck and moss.

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Nice. That's the kind of stuff I was pondering in my mind and hoping I'd hear more about. Thanks Mark.
 

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Thanks, Brian. Youtube is one of the most difficult things for me to access here in China, but is this instructional basically the same as the Bjorn video?
 

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Well.. cool. this is giving me some ideas to work with. Thanks for all the ideas so far, everyone!
 
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