Some of the most beautiful parts of plants usually remain buried, but there is a school of gardening that celebrates what we often never see
It is forever fascinating to me that human cultures tend to interpret nature in such dramatically different ways. Here in the UK, much of our gardening aesthetic is firmly fixated on flowers (the greater the number of petals and the more dazzling their colour the better). But in some east Asian societies, the focus is all about the amazing architecture of the parts of plants we usually don’t see: the roots.
One of the most revered schools of bonsai is the 'root over rock' style
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