I have a large old fuchsia in the front garden(the very common red flowered one with slender flowers,f.magellanica), and I will be moving it to the back garden.(Too large for the small front garden.)
I had a look at it tonight and it looks like there's more than one crown so I might be able to split it to get a nice thick stump for bonsai.
There's some really gnarly old fuchsias around here, some must be donkey's years old!
I think this particular species should make fine bonsai as it has smaller flowers than some showy ones, quite small leaves and it develops lovely flakey orangey-brown bark when mature, which I'm seeing now every time I go out the front door in the morning!
Heres the species I have, in case youre not familiar with this in the states:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plan...ages/3186.shtml