Akadama Japanese Bonsai Soil – Traditional, High-Quality Growing Medium | Ideal for Bonsai, Terrariums, and Kokedama
Experience the finest in bonsai care with Akadama Japanese Bonsai Soil, a traditional and original bonsai growing medium used by enthusiasts and professionals alike. This high-quality soil is perfect for both indoor and outdoor bonsai, offering excellent water retention, aeration, and root support.
Key Features:
Traditional Akadama Soil: Sourced from Japan, Akadama soil is a premium bonsai substrate that has been used for centuries to cultivate strong, healthy bonsai plants.
Versatile Use: This soil can be used as a stand-alone growing medium or mixed with other components, such as pumice or lava rock, to create the perfect soil blend for your bonsai trees.
Popular for Bonsai: Ideal for classic bonsai varieties like Japanese Maple, Juniper, Pine, Ficus, and Azalea bonsai trees. Whether you’re growing a delicate indoor bonsai or a hardy outdoor species, Akadama provides optimal root health and growth.
Perfect for Terrariums and Kokedama: Beyond bonsai, Akadama soil is also an excellent medium for creating moss balls, terrariums, and Kokedama (Japanese moss-covered plant balls), making it a versatile choice for various indoor gardening projects.
Improves Drainage and Aeration: Akadama soil’s natural composition helps retain moisture while ensuring excellent drainage and aeration, preventing root rot and promoting healthy root growth.
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General Purpose Potting Soil – The Perfect Base for All Your Indoor and Outdoor Plants
Our General Purpose Potting Soil is a versatile, high-quality, peat-free compost suitable for a wide variety of indoor and outdoor plants and herbs. Whether you’re potting houseplants, gardening on your patio, or planting trees and shrubs, this soil provides the ideal foundation for all your planting needs.
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Ensure the longevity and vibrancy of your succulents, cacti, and other low-maintenance plants with our Premium Succulent and Cacti Potting Mix. This high-quality soil blend is specifically formulated to provide the perfect balance of aeration, drainage, and nutrients, which are crucial for preventing root rot and promoting healthy growth.
Why Quality Soil Matters:
Succulents, cacti, and similar plants are naturally adapted to thrive in well-draining, nutrient-poor soils. Using a premium potting mix ensures that excess water drains quickly, preventing the roots from sitting in moisture, which is the primary cause of root rot. Our mix is designed to mimic the natural environments of these plants, providing them with the conditions they need to flourish.
Ideal for Repotting:
This potting mix is perfect for repotting a wide variety of plants, including:
Succulents like Echeveria, Aloe, Haworthia, and Sedum
Cacti such as Mammillaria, Opuntia, Ferocactus, and Rebutia
ZZ Plants (Zamioculcas zamiifolia)
Snake Plants (Sansevieria)
Jade Plants (Crassula ovata)
Agave
Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea recurvata)
String of Pearls (Senecio rowleyanus)
Burro’s Tail (Sedum morganianum)
Panda Plant (Kalanchoe tomentosa)
Euphorbia species such as Euphorbia trigona
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Perlite is a naturally occurring mineral, a mined volcanic rock. Perlite pearls are fluffy, lightweight, and extremely porous, with an amazing ability to retain water. Additionally, perlite improves aeration, helps loosen the soil, provides excellent drainage, and prevents soil compaction.
It is ideal as a component of soil for Aroids, Calathea, Carnivorous plants, Succulents, and cacti. Perlite can be used in potting mixes for indoor and outdoor plants, creating a loose growing medium. It has a neutral pH of 7-7.5 is suitable for propagating cuttings and can be used in seeding trays. Remember to spray with water before handling or wear a mask to protect your airways while mixing perlite.
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Vermiculite is a great option for plants that require a lot of water and thrive in moist soil.
This lightweight material can retain a large amount of water because of its hydrophilic properties. When watered, the small golden pieces of vermiculite expand and hold moisture, gradually releasing it back into the soil even days after watering.
It is particularly beneficial for plants such as ferns, calathea, maranta, peace lilies, and alocasia that need regular watering.
Vermiculite is also suitable for use as a plant propagation medium and an effective medium for seeding trays. It helps maintain the moisture and nutrients necessary for young roots, which can easily die off in a dry growing medium.
Using vermiculite can increase the success rate of growing plants from cuttings and seeds compared to using plain soil. It can be used alone or mixed with soil and other components. With a neutral pH of 7-7.5, vermiculite can be used for a wide variety of indoor and outdoor plants.
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Natural volcanic lava rock scoria is a multifunctional material, which can be used as an efficient drainage layer or even the sole substrate in terrariums, especially for plants that thrive with lower nutrient levels. It’s not only beneficial for terrariums but also an outstanding drainage material for vivarium and terrariums which allows to maintain a balanced ecosystem.
Beyond physical support for moss or plants, the lava stones play a significant role in biological filtration. Its expansive surface area provides a habitat for beneficial bacteria maintaining a healthy environment in your ecosystem.
Lava rock can be used in vivariums and terrariums for microlandscaping. Plant small ferns, moss and other plants into natural holes (or drilled) to get a very natural effect. The lava rock pores will absorb water and keep plants and moss hydrated.
You can use small pieces or glue a few together to create bigger rocks.
Benefits of lava rocks:
lava stones are natural and eco-friendly alternatives to polystyrene for creating landscapes in your terrarium, vivarium and mossarium
lava rocks create a perfect environment to grow moss and create moss walls and grottos in your terrariums
can be used to grow bonsai
the amazing substrate to grow your favourite lithophyte (plants which grow in or on rocks instead of soil) like ferns, orchids, schefflera!
suitable for carnivorous gardens and succulents bowls
can be used as a soil topper for plants which likes moist soil
can be used as a part of growing medium of aroids like monster, syngonium or philodendronPlease note, that as a natural product, our lava rocks vary in shape and size, ensuring each piece is unique. Smaller pieces can be glued together to make bigger rocks if necessary.
Introducing our premium potting mix tailored specifically for Carnivorous plants. This exceptional ready-to-use blend is carefully formulated to create optimal habitat for your carnivorous plants, ensuring they thrive in a consistently moist environment.
Ideal for carnivorous gardens, bog bowls and more indoor and outdoor botanical projects!
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The Highland Moss Terrarium Potting Mix is a handmade blend of high-quality ingredients that are specially formulated for terrariums. This premium mix is perfect for creating a base for a lush, healthy, and vibrant terrarium environment.
Suitable for open and closed terrariums, mossariums, moss bowls and kokedama.
The mix includes a combination of our fresh, hand-picked sphagnum moss with other ingredients to create ideal drainage, water retention and humidity inside your terrarium to ensure optimal plant growth.Make sure you have everything you need
Terrarium Checklist
Materials you need to create a terrarium:
Terrarium Soil: A specialist blend that is tailored for humidity-loving plants
Sphagnum Moss: Helps with water retention and improves drainage
Activated Charcoal: To prevent mould and provide an additional layer of filtration
Introducing Highland Moss Potting Mix Blends – the perfect potting soil for all your plants! Created with care and tested successfully, these blends offer excellent conditions for your plants to promote healthy grow of roots and foliage.
Our handmade potting mixes are crafted with organically rich soil and natural worm castings. Occasionally, you may notice small white or clear worms; these are harmless to your plants and are most likely nematodes or Enchytraeidae. They commonly reside in soil and contribute to the decomposition of decaying organic matter, without causing any harm to living plants. These organisms are indicative of the excellent quality of our organic worm castings, and you might sometimes see them in the bag. There is no cause for alarm, as they are a natural component and will only benefit your beautiful plants.
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Our aroid mix will be ideal for many of your houseplants including:
Monstera
Philodendron
Scindapsus
Epipremnum
Syngonium
and is a perfect base for your growing medium!
Our handmade potting mixes are crafted with organically rich soil and natural worm castings. Occasionally, you may notice small white or clear worms; these are harmless to your plants and are most likely nematodes or Enchytraeidae. They commonly reside in soil and contribute to the decomposition of decaying organic matter, without causing any harm to living plants. These organisms are indicative of the excellent quality of our organic worm castings, and you might sometimes see them in the bag. There is no cause for alarm, as they are a natural component and will only benefit your beautiful plants.
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Organic, fine, horticultural grade pine bark is suitable for Orchids, Hoya and other epiphytes. You can mix it with other components to create a potting mix for Syngonium, Monstera, Philodendron and other plants.
Can be used in terrarium and vivarium.
Using the pine bark on the top of the soil will help increase humidity around plants and keep the soil moist for longer!
3L fill in an average size 17cm nursery pot or 3 x 10cm pots.
