Specialty Gardening: Hello and request for help on miniature garden, 0 by largosmom

largosmom wrote:
Well, here is the result of the potting together. I moved things about a bit, mixed in some cactus and succulent soil, and removed one of the mossy lumps as four larger plants seemed out of balance.

I finger pruned the Hinoki Cypress just a bit to open the shape up, but not too much so that it doesn't look like a hard pruned juniper. I'm letting the top of it grow out before doing anything with that. I don't know how they grow, so need to watch and learn if there is anything that should be done for it.

I decided to leave the maple untrimmed for now. I'll wait until the graft settles in better, and watch it. It may get trimmed later in the summer. This is a new maple variety so I want to see how the leaves lay and then decide if I want to remove the upper branches. I will keep the branches tied down for now, though I don't like their length.

I just realized that the rocks are too large for the scale. Guess I'll have to get something different, maybe I'll use the gravel from the 4" pots for a path.