Bonsai Art

What are the best trees for bonsai? Some trees are definately harder to implement a bonsai form on than others but is it still possible to miniaturise them?

The following trees are even harder to make into bonsai because their leaves are compound instead of singular. This means that a leaf is made up of more than one leavelet instead of just the one. This is not good news in winter when they drop off and you have no branch structure left.

These include:

Horse chestnut

Ash

Rowan

The method to get around this is to have a very large bonsai. It’s as simple as that. However you will still notice a very large reduction in branch structure in winter (or at least what you thought was branches).

Part one here