Robert Kieffer wrote:
Will it increase the probability of disease or pestilence if I put my
trees among the garden plants in the backyard? Are there any
pathogens that would share a tree host and say, an Elephant Ear host?

At the moment, I have my trees leaning against the house on shipping
pallets, but have been thinking of putting them nearer the ground
spread across the yard, where they might become exposed to disease or
pests.

Has anyone seen a correlation between growing bonsai alongside flowers
and all that, and disease?


Sure. Aphids are fairly indiscriminate, as are white fly,
mealybug, various stinkbugs, and some scale. If your pots
are ON the ground, you'll undoubtedly get earthworms in your
soil and that's not good, either.

Of course, shipping pallets near/against your house isn't a
great idea, either because of termites.

Bonsai should be off the ground, on tables (or platforms),
ideally just below eye level -- but few of us do that.
There should be lots if space around each tree.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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