Group plantings replicate a number of trees growing together in a copse, wood or a forest and reflect the interplay between the trees and their branches as they compete for light and nutrients.
Group plantings work very well utilizing the graceful and slender trunks.
Propagation ...
Group plantings or trees with multiple trunk forms should have an overall triangular outline, this triangular shape should not be symmetrical.
In some groups, a dominant tree can disturb the overall triangular shape.
Foliage, flowers and fruit ...
Forest Group plantings imitating small clumps of trees groups where each one of them grows as independent trees and competing with each other for its own light and space.
Group plantings are denoted by how many trunks are in the planting. Sambon-Yõse (3 trunks), Gohon-Yõse (5), Nanahon-Yõse (7) and Kyuhon-Yõse (9) are the usual groupings.
Seedlings for Group Plantings
Green seedlings make excellent material for group and forest plantings. The same precautions about internode length apply. Indeed, it is even more important for this style since the trees will remain small.
And finally ...
Slender trunks and group plantings look best in shallow pots
Graceful lowland styles of tree are set off best in oval pots or soft cornered rectangles with a curved profile.
Strong gnarled trunks need strong rectangular shaped pots ...
General care : Pomegranates can be very easily propagated - so group plantings can be quickly created from quite thick branches taken from a parent plant. Keep the pomegranate damp at all times.
He based this bonsai art form on the principles of group plantings and rock plantings of bonsai, as well as the are of suiseki [literally waterstones (sui=water, seki=stone)], often interpreted as 'viewing stones'.
In group plantings, more so than in any other style of bonsai, visual weight is one of the most important commodities. It is a means by which we make the viewers eye go to the exact point in our composition that we want them to.
As Yuji Yoshimura explains: "In the case of multiple trunks and group plantings it should be noted that the Japanese have a strong dislike for even numbers.
group plantings should be potted in large shallow pots or slabs of rock, allowing a natural landscape to be created
delicate trees can be matched with more fancy, dainty pots which may have ornate feet ...
 See also: Bonsai, Planting, Group, Plant, Trunk
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