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What is this by pear tree?

fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398
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Any ideas what this is shooting up by pear tree? I don’t believe it’s pear. Does look like some kind of tree? There’s a tiny shoot at back too. It’s been growing a long time and has looked more tree like with time. It didn’t have green buds like this last year? Any ideas really appreciated!
Thanks! 

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    are those catkins at the ends of the twigs?


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398


    @nutcutlet I don’t believe so! They are small green leaves with what I think are buds?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    It does look quite hazel -like.
    Where is the pear tree? They're usually grafted, and if that's coming from below a graft, it will be different from what's above it.
    They're often grafted onto Quince though, and it doesn't look like that.
    Something that's been dropped by a bird or similar, could be the reason for it being there.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398
    @Fairygirl here it is! Thanks! What does grafted on mean?


  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The tree which you buy is attached early on [grafted] onto a different rootstock - often so that the desirable tree either grows more rapidly, or the opposite, and grows more slowly. It depends on what will suit the desirable tree best.
    Many fruit trees are grafted for that reason. Apples, for example can grow enormous, so it can be beneficial if they're on a rootstock which will limit that size and be well suited for smaller, domestic gardens  :)

    That looks a bit far away from the pear to be a sucker of some kind, but someone else will know better than me on that score. @nutcutlet will probably know. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I thought Goat Willow possibly
    The fields where I walk with my dog have lots of it, so I had a look this afternoon. The buds are still silvery white but not open yet


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 398
    @Fairygirl @nutcutlet any others - this is it now? 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Could be a pear sucker.  Could be a pussy willow.  Either way, have it out.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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