b3bowen
Mame
This oak started growing in my flower bed. Deer have been training it so far. Not sure the variety, but outer nodes are pretty tight. Would you keep it to develop or toss in the compost pile. Cant stay where it is.
Keep it or trash it
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sorce
Nonsense Rascal
You may want to dig it for figitin iffin you plan on keeping one in the future.
But you'll definitely find a better one before this one's future comes around.
Sorce
But you'll definitely find a better one before this one's future comes around.
Sorce
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first shovel.
defra
Masterpiece
If you have space for it elsewere: just dig it prune the taproot and plant it in a spot were it can stay for a couple years and chop it each year to grow taper and movement, dig it once in two/three years to work on nebari and after some time you have learned more and are able to decide if it's bonsai worthy material or not
cheap_walmart_art
Omono
Unless you have very few "project" trees going on, my vote would be to toss. Then again, I have been looking at my own garden and my mild irritation with all the straight, skinny trunks I see might be spilling over.... 
River's Edge
Masterpiece
Toss
parhamr
Omono
The outer nodes may be tight now, but oak can still explode quite impressively with long and large growths in container culture 
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
Looks like a large leafed one too....if not English Oak or Willow Oak, not on my radar.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
So does the trip to the dumpster ;-)
Sansui
Shohin
Consider putting it in a nursery pot and donate it to a local cause. I've had a bounty of Sycamore seedlings this year and had also rescued a flat of red pine seedlings destined for the dumpster last year. I donated all of them to a local non-profit watershed restoration effort.
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
It doesn't look like a kind of leaf that will reduce well. But it is still a living and healthy oak tree. Just move it somewhere else and let it live.
augustine
Chumono
It will take many years for the trunk to thicken and the leaves may not reduce to a suitable size.
If you have a hankering for an oak bonsai check out Zach of Bonsai South for nice collected or ground grown material. Also EvergreenGardenWorks online nursery has oaks available for bonsai.
If you have a hankering for an oak bonsai check out Zach of Bonsai South for nice collected or ground grown material. Also EvergreenGardenWorks online nursery has oaks available for bonsai.
cheap_walmart_art
Omono
Bonsai South might be a better bet. Evergreen has good, healthy material but most anything you order won't be much further along than what he has pictured, least from my multiple experiences ordering from them.
parhamr
Omono
Evergreen has some wonderful specimen deciduous trees including a variety of Quercus: https://www.evergreengardenworks.com/specimendec.htm
cheap_walmart_art
Omono
haha I always forget he does specimen trees also.
parhamr
Omono
He does make it a little hard to find those pages
SpOoNzL
Yamadori
Personally I would not waste time with it if it was not a good bonsai prospect...if the leaves will not reduce etc. Maybe you have more time than I though. You can experiment on a suitable one just as easy as a bad one and have something at the end of the experiment. Just my opinion of course.....
b3bowen
Mame
Thank you all so much for your comments. Perhaps I will dig it up in the spring, and move it to a different part of my property, and just let it grow. I’ll be on the lookout for an English Oak. Does anybody have any idea as to the kind of Oak this is?
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