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Tree ID please - keeper or chopper?

ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
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OH has cleared a strange wee bed in our plot at the end of the very weedy gravelled area.  It has a lilac tree and this thing but I think they're too close.   No idea what the tree is either so can you help?


Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Plato

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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited April 2020
    Morus sp.?
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I don't think so - no flowers or fruits at all and we've been here 3 years now and I'd have thought it big enough.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    Had a look at my book earlier, and it has a look of Hazel to me. Have a look at the Turkish Hazel, Corylus Colurna.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Turkish Hazel, Corylus Colurna...pics
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Thanks @Borderline and @Silver surfer.  Looks like the one.   I shall probably remove that lilac instead as there are two others in the same area and let the hazel have its head.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Obelixx said:
    Thanks @Borderline and @Silver surfer.  Looks like the one.   I shall probably remove that lilac instead as there are two others in the same area and let the hazel have its head.
    Ooops! 
    Sorry to confuse.
    I posted pics of Turkish hazel...for you to have a closer look.
    I don't think it is a match...but cannot be sure.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Looks good to me @Silver surfer.   Either way, it's more attractive than the lilac but OH had a grump when I suggested removing the lilac so I have compromised - lifted the crown on the hazel and I've thinned the lilac.

    Off to tackle a forsythia in the mixed hedge now - really dislike the yellow flowers but good for pollinators so I'm going to butcher it, feed and water it and see what it says.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Are the leaves alternate or opposite?

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





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