Saikei literally translates as "planted landscape" or it is the art of the living landscape.
Saikei is blending of rock, moss, gravel, grass and trees to forma natural landscape. Saikei is a fun project project and could also be only a temporary arrangement as the trees will eventually need a bigger or deeper pot.
For a saikei you'll need: ...
Saikei
Excerpts taken from Miniature Living Bonsai Landscapes, The Art of Saikei by Herb Gustafson (with his permission) ...
Saikei
A group planting using trees as well as rocks, mosses and other plants to create the appearance of a landscape.
Sankan ...
Diospyros Saikei
An amazing Ficus microcarpa/Fig Root over rock
A very large Pemphis bonsai ...
saikei - tray plantings containing stones, trees, plants, but in the strict sense, without figurines - See bonkei.
shari - Japanese term for exposed deadwood on a tree
sokan - Japanese term for a twin trunk tree ...
Accessory plant or planting - This term refers to additional plants within the confines of the bonsai pot as underplanting for the tree or trees, especially in larger group or Saikei plantings.
Penjing, the hobby of creating a miniature landscape, is an art that bears close ties with the arts of bonsai, saikei and bonkei - ways of displaying the harmony of form, shape and scale of nature in miniature.
When bonsai was first introduced to Japan so was Saikei, miniature landscapes, which once were very popular but then they were forgotten as the Tokonoma (Art Alcove) and the bonsai displayed there gained center stage.
Styles: Informal Upright;Broom;Group planting;Saikei
Location: Outdoor
Position: Bright sunny spot. Protect young plants from mid-summer direct sun. Protect pots form freezing over in winter.
Trident Maple - forest setting
Seedlings 1979
Made into Saikei 1981
Reassembled as Forest Setting 1991
Height 30cm ...
The most unusual pot you will come across is the suiban. This pot is used in Saikei or Tray Landscapes ...
Fukien tea’s growth characteristics make it a splendid material to use for forest, landscape or Saikei plantings.
Propagation ...
 See also: Bonsai, Plant, Planting, Style, Pot
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