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This tree just appeared

matt.claytonmatt.clayton Posts: 8
edited April 2023 in Problem solving
Hi everyone. I'm not great at gardening but learning!! This tree has just appeared and is very fast growing. We didn't plant it. Does anyone have any idea what it is please? Thanks for all your help. 

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Sorry @matt.clayton, your photo didn't appear.  You need to click on the small 'mountain' icon above, resize the photo slightly smaller and resend please.

    Then we can see what you mean.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • matt.claytonmatt.clayton Posts: 8
    hi, thanks for that. hopefully you can see it now. 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Difficult to tell as there's other bushes/trees nearby but I did spot a cherry tree? in the background so it might possibly be either a suckering shoot from that one or a new one grown from the fruit of it. There are flowering cherry trees that produce small plum like fruit.

    In your last photo, are all three trunks shown from the same plant or is just the one on the right?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • matt.claytonmatt.clayton Posts: 8
    all three trunks from the same plant
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    blackthorn?
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Sorry, but I don't believe it has just appeared. It is several years old.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That was my thoughts also @punkdoc, but things do happen to appear sometimes when you haven't been looking for them!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • StephenSouthwestStephenSouthwest Posts: 635
    I'm wondering about crab or wild pear?
  • M33R4M33R4 Posts: 291
    edited April 2023
    Pyracantha!!! I can tell it a mile apart as it's the bane of my life!!! I am wounded and scarred all over my arms with this!

    Is it armed with thick thorns?
    I wish I could garden all year round!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I agree with @Hostafan1 - looks like Blackthorn, and no - it hasn't just appeared  :)
    It suckers, so it' s likely to have been sneaking up for a while.
    Doesn't look like pyracantha to me at all. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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