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• yorkshirerose Posts: 574

  April 2020

  Looks very much like Elder (Sambucus nigra) 
  https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/elder/
  

  A gardener's work is never at an end  - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  April 2020

  Top one looks like an ash sapling to me.  Black terminal bud.
  

  East Anglia

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  April 2020

  Other Half says Ash saplings you can tell by the bark. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• ilukemartin Posts: 2

  April 2020

  Yeah a lot of the buds where really black on the others, looked at a few google images after your suggestions and it looks like ash saplings. Thanks for the replies. 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2020

  Definitely ash tree sapling. 

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

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