bonsai

i'd really like to make a mountain landscape style bonsai. the king with a large interesting craggy rock placed in a shallow tray of water with small bonsai plants growing in the crevices. like the picture below.

i have'nt seen any interesting rocks around lately but there is a lot of interesting pieces of wood laying around. i could substitute a piece of driftwood and have small trees and other miniature plants growing in the crevices. use driftwood with bonsai is usually used for a different style where you train the living bonsai tree around a piece of driftwood to make it look older and more narled. heres a beautiful example.

that would be interesting it self to grow a bonsia on driftwood. i have a bonsai ficus. i dont like the shape of the truck maybe growing in or on an interesting piece of driftwood would give it a more appealing shape. i could start it out as growing in a crevis like the mountain bonsai, eventually (after a very long time) it will grow into the driftwood and may turn out looking like the bonsai above. though depending on what i can find laying around the bonsai might end up with a more gnarled interesting base instead of a gnarled trunk like the tree above, if i let it grow out of the piece of wood instead of training it to grow along it.

now this is an interesting one i wonder if i could do something like this with an interesting piece of wood. if it looked as good as this one i dont think it will matter if the landscape appears to be a giant piece of wood instead of a rocky cliffs. wood would probably be easier to grow moss on and it would hold more moisture.