Landscape bonsai focuses upon water and rock formations. It uses various types of rock, trees, and moss to recreate mountains, plains, and streams in a shallow pot. Miniatures of such famous mountains as Mt.
山水盆栽以水、石為中心，利用各類石頭、小樹、蘚苔，在淺缽之中造出山野、河川等等景觀，有的甚至把泰山、峨嵋山、三峽、黃山、桂林、陽朔、華山等名山再現於缽中。