As explained in another page, moss and other live miniature plants make for a great compliment to your bonsai tree. You can collect moss/small herbaceous plants from the forest floor, a nursery, boulders alongside streams, or from old, sheltered areas. Most if not all bonsai compositions include moss or lichen as attractive and easy-to-obtain ground [...]

The ground cover of your bonsai is one of the important elements that will add greatly to the overall visual composition aspect of your bonsai tree, as well as assist in providing soil chemical stability and retaining temperature and moisture for the bonsai tree’s surface roots. A good choice of ground cover vegetation coupled with [...]