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Are these sycamore seedlings?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s the seed leaves,  the same in almost every plant,  you’d need to wait for a set of true leaves,  but if you have sycamore trees around then it will be them. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Almost certainly.
     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."
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    pansyface said:
    Yep, sycamore.

    It’s been an unusually successful year for them.

    Sycathesightofthem. 😊

    I have loads of these, this year. I have gently eased them out, particularly out of the cracks on the drive. 

    I love your signoff!! :)
  • Super gardenerSuper gardener Posts: 106
    Many thanks - I’ve never really noticed them before but this year I must have had thousands- do I need to get the roots out or will hoeing them off surfice?
  • Super gardenerSuper gardener Posts: 106
    They certainly do- I’ll hoe in future as picking them out was becoming rather mesmerising! 😳
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    They could be sycamore or ash. 
    This year the village green where I walk my dog has millions of similar seed leaves growing all over it at present. If you try to weed them out by hand you will find a very long tap root. The cricket club has started their annual mowing marathon of the Green so that will put an end to most of the seedlings. People walking on them and dogs peeing and pooing on them will also help to curb the seedlings growth.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They look a bit dark for sycamore. Can't compare with ash - never seen one😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Our neighbour has a large sycamore tree. In the 7 years we have been here, I remember few seedlings appearing. This year we seem to have hundreds. Am reassured that it seems to be a widespread phenomenon. I had wondered if it was a signal that their tree was distressed and sending out a last hurrah.
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've certainly been seeing loads this year, and the nearest maples/sycamores are a few hundred yards from me now, as I don't have any in this garden, and the one across from me had to be removed last year. Used to get loads in the garden round the corner as we had a lovely one in the front garden.  :)
    I've now been in this house ten years, so  I think you're right @pansyface. Mast year. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    The weather could also have given ideal conditions for the seeds to stratify, germinate, ripen and grow.
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