I am lucky enough to live with my back garden being next to what I class as the main three native trees of Britain. These are:
The Common Ash
The Sycamore
The (mighty!) English Oak
I get a plentiful supply of seedlings growing out of my lawn and flowerbeds which I can use as bonsai. The only problem is, because these tree’s leaves are so big the bonsai need to be big also. However you can get a great result out of using these. You just need to think a little bit bigger when creating your bonsai. Leave it grow for a good few years on it’s own before trying to train it. You’ll find you can end up with something spectacular with any one of these three trees. It will just take a bit of extra effort.
Give it a try. Create an ash, sycamore or oak bonsai today! As a general rule they should be more than two foot tall to look sensible.
Now you got me searching the internet for Ash Bonsai pictures. I can’t find any pictures that are big enough to really see. I imagine they cold make great bonsai, not having that big of leaves. If you have any good pictures please let me know. Great post!
There is a great one in the golf course where I work. I’ll take a picture tomorrow and post it on here.