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richard.perkins5richard.perkins5 Posts: 4
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Hi there.

over the weekend a plot of land around 20x20m has been completely covered in what look like saplings!? 

2inches tall, two green and two reddish leaves.

No idea what they are!! 


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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What trees do you have nearby?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • richard.perkins5richard.perkins5 Posts: 4
    Cherry blossom, oak, there was an ash but had die back, hawthorn, and roan berry.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd say sycamore seedlings
    Devon.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Hostafan1 said:
    I'd say sycamore seedlings
    I was going to say the same, since we get so many. We get lots in our garden. I gently ease them out of the ground.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    There's been loads reported on the forum recently -it appears to have been a mast year for sycamores/maples.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • richard.perkins5richard.perkins5 Posts: 4
    Thanks all for the responses.  Am I right in assuming that they can be pricked out and re-potted? It's a school, so could plant them elsewhere if this was the case.

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    My sycamore seedlings have green leaves but maybe they are some sort of acer, trees anyway. I wouldn't pot them on unless you want to leave a future generation some whopping great trees. But maybe you do.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sycamore seedlings can often have a reddish colour in the young leaves. 

    Please be aware that they can be very toxic for horses and ponies. 



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





  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    It's always a mast  or sycamores
     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."
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    No idea what that means.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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