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Please ID this tree enjoying its second lease on life
Hi all,
I would be very grateful if someone could identify the species of plant of the tree pictured in the attached photos. This is a tree which appeared dead when we bought our house 3 years ago. The vertical part of the trunk had a fold in it where the tree had somehow fallen over to the side and the upper branches were laying on top of the hedge. Every part of the tree looked dead, with no leaves at all!
So I took out a hand saw and chopped the trunk just above a bud on the side of the trunk, which I think must've shown at least some potential, if not already begun to sprout. Since then, as you can see, the tree has seized a second lease on life and especially through this long hot summer it has shot up with a number of new branches and now I see there are even some flowers forming, which is definitely progress!
If only I knew what plant it was I might be able to take care of it better this time around and hopefully stop it collapsing over as it did during its first life.
I would be very grateful if someone could identify the species of plant of the tree pictured in the attached photos. This is a tree which appeared dead when we bought our house 3 years ago. The vertical part of the trunk had a fold in it where the tree had somehow fallen over to the side and the upper branches were laying on top of the hedge. Every part of the tree looked dead, with no leaves at all!
So I took out a hand saw and chopped the trunk just above a bud on the side of the trunk, which I think must've shown at least some potential, if not already begun to sprout. Since then, as you can see, the tree has seized a second lease on life and especially through this long hot summer it has shot up with a number of new branches and now I see there are even some flowers forming, which is definitely progress!
If only I knew what plant it was I might be able to take care of it better this time around and hopefully stop it collapsing over as it did during its first life.
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Here's a close up of where the new growth breaks out of the old section of trunk. Seems almost like a new tree grew up the side of the inside of the old trunk!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caragana_arborescens_Walker_2017-05-06_9864.jpg
https://www.google.com/search?q=Caragana+arborescens+‘Walker’&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjq78HWsurcAhVHPFAKHe6iARsQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943
Now I can google the plant and read up on it. Seems like the common name might be Walkers peashrub, or walkers siberian pea shrub.
Thanks again for your comments in this thread and the positive iD.
Other one is weeping..yours appears to be growing upright.
https://www.arborealis.nl/gb-gb/catalog/heesters/caragana-arborescens-lorbergii.caalorbe.html
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=CARAGANA+arborescens+'Lorbergii'&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI0JXduOrcAhWSLFAKHdhtCE8Q_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943
I wonder if there are any differentiators other than the shape. The leaves and flowers look the same on the Google Images shots of both variants.
https://www.bluebellnursery.com/catalogue/trees/Caragana/C/493
https://books.google.se/books?id=_5rICwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=caragana+arborescens+lorbergii&source=bl&ots=1dPg5yx3UM&sig=RBudJignJHUO6dwd9AC6hmEwT8I&hl=en&sa=X&ve=2ahUKEwiykdqopezcAhULMZoKHVvRC2g4MhDoATABegQICRAB
I've been through the google hits up to page 12 or so and a lot of them seem to be Finnish and Swedish nurseries, so I guess this is a plant more common in this part of the world than in the U.K., probably due to the winter hardiness it possesses. Well it's very nice to finally know the name of it at least.