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Ash sapling?

loliloli Posts: 61
in Plants
before I dig this out as it’s fairly hard to pull up. Is this an unwanted ash sapling (no tree nearby but I know the seeds travel far). Just want to confirm it before. Also in the photo is a very out of season cyclamen 😂

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    edited May 2019
    Yes, Pull it out with as much root as you can. You may need to water it well first to loosen it.
  • loliloli Posts: 61
    Thanks it’s in quite a damp area so hoping a bit of brute force does the trick. 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    They are a total pest in a year I have enough to create a forest.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited May 2019
    Sadly nearly all mature Fraxinus excelsior...common ash trees are now completely dead round here.
    Soon, no one will be worrying about a plague of seedling/baby trees.

    First Elms now Ash...oh dear.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Silver surfer said:
    Sadly nearly all mature Fraxinus excelsior...common ash trees are now completely dead round here.
    Soon, no one will be worrying about a plague of seedling/baby trees.

    First Elms now Ash...oh dear.
    Due to the enormous number of ash seedlings produced, I'm sure a resistant strain would appear if left to nature, but who is going to let a forest of ash trees grow on their land?  Well, apart from forestry plantation owners of course.  Now if they'd have grown-on the naturally produced seedlings themselves instead of buying them in from overseas (I was incredulous when I found that out - importing ash saplings?!), we wouldn't have this problem. ;)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Yes.  If you can't dig them out, cut to the ground and paint the surface with full strength (as advised on the container) SBK brushwood killer.  Cover it if you're worried about anything/one coming into contact for a week.  You may have to repeat but I never have had to.  Works great for those which are discovered in really awkward places like the junction of paving and a wall.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    No ... that’s a Sorbus ... aka mountain ash or rowan. 

    The large English ash tree is a Fraxinus. 

    Different families. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    Very loose 😂 ... Bonsai have their roots clipped ... not just the branches. 
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1FDfwyjkrs

    Just cutting it back from year year to year will simply produce a rather stubby ugly sad bundle of branches that’s trying to be a magnificent forest tree  😞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    A neighbour of ours had a sycamore tree in his garden and he cut it down 5 years ago. I'm still finding seedlings today 
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