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Please help identify some trees and shrubs
FMTaylor
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Hi all,
Wondering if you could help me identify some trees and shrubs. I'm hoping to take cuttings from some of them to form a hedge/border around a small paddock. Would like to find out if they'd be suitable and perhaps choose the fastest-growing ones.
Photos below, labelled A-I. I don't know much at all about different types of trees but from what I've seen online, I'm wondering:
A: is this some sort of cherry tree?
B: Hawthorn?
C: also Hawthorn (with slightly different leaves) or something else?
D : some sort of wild rose? Dog rose?
E: perhaps Elder? (it's growing underneath the Hawthorn)
F: no idea
G: perhaps some sort of Ash (very small)?
H: Oak (very small)
I: not sure at all, wondered if it could be an apple tree
Any advice much appreciated - many thanks in advance.
Fiona
Wondering if you could help me identify some trees and shrubs. I'm hoping to take cuttings from some of them to form a hedge/border around a small paddock. Would like to find out if they'd be suitable and perhaps choose the fastest-growing ones.
Photos below, labelled A-I. I don't know much at all about different types of trees but from what I've seen online, I'm wondering:
A: is this some sort of cherry tree?
B: Hawthorn?
C: also Hawthorn (with slightly different leaves) or something else?
D : some sort of wild rose? Dog rose?
E: perhaps Elder? (it's growing underneath the Hawthorn)
F: no idea
G: perhaps some sort of Ash (very small)?
H: Oak (very small)
I: not sure at all, wondered if it could be an apple tree
Any advice much appreciated - many thanks in advance.
Fiona
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A Cherry tree complete with cherries. You might want to drape some old net curtains round it when the fruit starts to ripen. I do, since I lost every cherry to the jackdaws.
B Hawthorn, deffo.
C I should know this but can't remember the name. Not hawthorn.
E is elder, a much under-rated plant IMHO
G is ash
H is oak but I couldn't tell you which, there are several species
I could be apple, pear or crab apple
The public library can probably lend you a field guide which should help.
C looks like a Hawthorn to me. Possibly the Midland Hawthorn, Crataegus Laevigata.