Tag Archives: Mulch

Field Growing 4: Native Soil

wayne | 03/13/2009

This Satsuki azalea (Rhododendron indicum) was originally field grown (it’s from  Bonsai Today issue 40). Field growing is common for azaleas; some start as landscape plants and are later dug up for bonsai, while others are grown as bonsai stock from the beginning. In our last field growing post we mention planting directly into native [...]

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Have You Thought About Field Growing?

wayne | 01/28/2009

Have you tried field growing? You don’t need a lot of space to experiment with a small number of plants and the results will easily exceed expectations that have been conditioned by container growing. One of the reasons the Japanese have so many well developed bonsai is field growing. In the west, we tend to [...]

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