Growing a Flat Nebari & Video of Fast Draining Soil
Nebari are the surface roots of your tree.
When they are thick and spreading in an even radial fashion [Typical for an upright tree.] they really do help to give your bonsai that ‘Aged Big Tree’ look.
As John Y. Naka said: “Don’t make your tree look like a bonsai, Make your bonsai look like a tree.”
Here is a Ficus b. cutting that I recently pruned back hard.
A better shot of a soil ingredient to show the particle size, This is a handful of {mostly} pine bark, [The organic component of my soil. Yes, It is wet.] (more…)