Ground layering

Ground layering
Where you fix a low growing branch into the ground (or a container). Anchor the branch to the ground with a steak, or cane to stop the tree moving, and mound soil over the area to be rooted.

Ground Layering
This form of layering mimics the process by which some species propagate themselves naturally.

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Ground layering is the typical propagation technique for the popular Malling-Merton series of clonal apple rootstocks in which the original plants are set in the ground with the stem nearly horizontal, ...

The surface roots on the broom styled tree should be somewhat "perfect" in how they radiate from the trunk, being neither uniform in spacing nor size. If the roots are imperfect, they can be re-made by ground layering the trunk once the canopy is ...

See also: Layering, Bonsai, Species, Tree, Plant