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i agree with ya will...i was walking by the side of a wood where i live and there was some building going on...i then saw 3 english oak trees that looked perfect... so i asked the land owner if i could have the trees.. he kindly said yes but there was a problem...oaks have a long deep tap root ,and these oaks had quite big trunks witch=big tap roots

so while i was stood there thinking wot to do one of the work men came up to me and said do u need some help..i said yes but how and exsplaned to him about the big tap roots..

he said hold on i have just the thing..then he went and got a jcb digger..that was perfect we dug deep and cut of the tap roots and the bonus was that there were plenty of small roots still on the oaks.

iv had these oaks for 4 months now and there doing great

i will post the pics of them at a later date

including a orthorn i collected at the same time..

1-Jun-2006	#20
speedy bonsaiTALK Journeyman Join Date: May-2006 Location: south yorkshire...doncaster Country: uk Posts: 10	my first collection i agree with ya will...i was walking by the side of a wood where i live and there was some building going on...i then saw 3 english oak trees that looked perfect... so i asked the land owner if i could have the trees.. he kindly said yes but there was a problem...oaks have a long deep tap root ,and these oaks had quite big trunks witch=big tap roots so while i was stood there thinking wot to do one of the work men came up to me and said do u need some help..i said yes but how and exsplaned to him about the big tap roots.. he said hold on i have just the thing..then he went and got a jcb digger..that was perfect we dug deep and cut of the tap roots and the bonus was that there were plenty of small roots still on the oaks. iv had these oaks for 4 months now and there doing great i will post the pics of them at a later date including a orthorn i collected at the same time..