sweetchestnut

Hello, here is a collected sweet chestnut that ive put into a pot this week A fair bit of root pruning done so need to make some adjustments to the above. Im not really wanting to make this tree any shorter as the leaves are quite sizey and as is im quite happy with the taper and think it...

I have seen a lot of oak bonsai, I have seen TWO sweet chestnut bonsai and one of them was for sale on 15 different sites. I am wondering why I don't see this tree used more, it has a nice leaf shape, the leaves get fairly small, the bark is really nice on older chestnuts. Is this like a...