Yes Dove, This is the biggest one, about 15ft tall and the base is made of a few trunks of only about 6 to 8incs diameter.
Thanks Nutcutlet, I am going tree/bush/shrub buying on Friday I had to sacrifice buying a shed so that I could get one. But looking forward to going round the GC's . If I can find something that will adequately fill that gap then it will come down. Still need to know how to get rid of them though???
I know what you mean Heather! I have noticed three more little ones poking through the hedges.
You can cut them off and drill holes in the stump and put RootOut in to kill the stump. If RootOut no longer exists there'll be something available for stump killing. If you can afford it you can get the stump-grinders in
Jack 3.. you appear to have all your questions answered. I have a question for you. I love the look of your syringa. I've seen a similiar one in somebody's garden but diden't have the nerve to knock on the door to ask!!! What is the name of your syringa? What is its height. Thanks.
Thank you nutcutlet again. So I'm assuming if the stump stays in, it will regrow?
How long do you reckon it would take for this size tree to become a problem that I can't fix myself. For instance if I left it in another year and got rid next spring would it be much worse a task than now?
I'm going to pull the little ones out whilst they are still easy to manage, I think.
Fluffy Cloud, (now I have The Orb music in my head) Nutcutlet identified that one for me on another thread, it is Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'. It is about 2 and a half to three foot tall at the moment. When I inherited it, it was a little dead looking thing in a pot, this was about nine months ago, I just stuck it in the ground and now it's flourishing. There's lots of new flowers coming out on it every day.
It will regrow,, that's coppicing, an old woodland management technique.
Has it got 2 stems from one plant? It looks like it in the pic. You could cut one back and some more will grow in its place. Let one of those grow and then cut the other big one back.
In the meantime work on getting something more garden-friendly than a sycamore
Thanks nutcutlet. Yes two stems on the one plant. I'll see how it goes, I'm probably being too sentimental, because when we moved to this house I was happy I had a tree. Tomorrow my happy bank holiday weekend starts with some trips to nurseries and garden centres, I'll see what I can get.
I had heard about coppicing, I just didn't know whether it only worked for certain trees. Thanks again for all the advice.
..I might just give an alternative identification for the Syringa as I don't believe it's meyeri Palibin... I have this one and the flowers are a lighter colour and the leaves are more rounded... it's also a much smaller shrub.... the one highlighted here on page 1 is already 3 foot tall and promises to be a taller plant...the flowers are darker pink and the leaves more elongated... so I think it's Syringa microphylla or to give it it's full name, Syringa pubescens subsp. microphylla 'Superba'....
...I think it's nicer than Palibin to be honest... see what you think...
Oh, Salino, I'll have to look at that. In the other thread Nutcutlet suggested two it may be, and this was going by a picture where it had few leaves and no flowers. I saw a syringa in the GC which looked identical to mine, which was the meyeri. So if it's a wrong ID the fault is mine. I'll have to take a look at both. Thanks for the input.
I just went out and bought some plants from the local nursery. I don't know whether I got over excited and made the wrong decisions. I got Malus Royalty, Crataegus and Prunus chocolate Ice. I didn't realise the Malus Royalty got so big as what I'm seeing now on the internet. The people couldn't deliver until Thursday so I have time to go back and change my mind on that one.
Also go a lovely six foot thick red robin bush, which I've wanted one of for ages.
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Yes Dove, This is the biggest one, about 15ft tall and the base is made of a few trunks of only about 6 to 8incs diameter.
Thanks Nutcutlet, I am going tree/bush/shrub buying on Friday
I had to sacrifice buying a shed so that I could get one. 
But looking forward to going round the GC's 
. If I can find something that will adequately fill that gap then it will come down. Still need to know how to get rid of them though???
I know what you mean Heather! I have noticed three more little ones poking through the hedges.
I should think that's been cut back before Jack.
You can cut them off and drill holes in the stump and put RootOut in to kill the stump. If RootOut no longer exists there'll be something available for stump killing. If you can afford it you can get the stump-grinders in
In the sticks near Peterborough
Jack 3.. you appear to have all your questions answered. I have a question for you. I love the look of your syringa. I've seen a similiar one in somebody's garden but diden't have the nerve to knock on the door to ask!!! What is the name of your syringa? What is its height. Thanks.
I can answer that one if Jack's not about. Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you nutcutlet again.
So I'm assuming if the stump stays in, it will regrow?
How long do you reckon it would take for this size tree to become a problem that I can't fix myself. For instance if I left it in another year and got rid next spring would it be much worse a task than now?
I'm going to pull the little ones out whilst they are still easy to manage, I think.
Fluffy Cloud, (now I have The Orb music in my head) Nutcutlet identified that one for me on another thread, it is Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'. It is about 2 and a half to three foot tall at the moment. When I inherited it, it was a little dead looking thing in a pot, this was about nine months ago, I just stuck it in the ground and now it's flourishing. There's lots of new flowers coming out on it every day.
Thanks all!
It will regrow,, that's coppicing, an old woodland management technique.
Has it got 2 stems from one plant? It looks like it in the pic. You could cut one back and some more will grow in its place. Let one of those grow and then cut the other big one back.
In the meantime work on getting something more garden-friendly than a sycamore
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks nutcutlet. Yes two stems on the one plant. I'll see how it goes, I'm probably being too sentimental, because when we moved to this house I was happy I had a tree. Tomorrow my happy bank holiday weekend starts with some trips to nurseries and garden centres, I'll see what I can get.
I had heard about coppicing, I just didn't know whether it only worked for certain trees. Thanks again for all the advice.
..I might just give an alternative identification for the Syringa as I don't believe it's meyeri Palibin... I have this one and the flowers are a lighter colour and the leaves are more rounded... it's also a much smaller shrub.... the one highlighted here on page 1 is already 3 foot tall and promises to be a taller plant...the flowers are darker pink and the leaves more elongated... so I think it's Syringa microphylla or to give it it's full name, Syringa pubescens subsp. microphylla 'Superba'....
...I think it's nicer than Palibin to be honest... see what you think...
Oh, Salino, I'll have to look at that. In the other thread Nutcutlet suggested two it may be, and this was going by a picture where it had few leaves and no flowers. I saw a syringa in the GC which looked identical to mine, which was the meyeri. So if it's a wrong ID the fault is mine. I'll have to take a look at both. Thanks for the input.
I just went out and bought some plants from the local nursery. I don't know whether I got over excited and made the wrong decisions. I got Malus Royalty, Crataegus and Prunus chocolate Ice. I didn't realise the Malus Royalty got so big as what I'm seeing now on the internet. The people couldn't deliver until Thursday so I have time to go back and change my mind on that one.
Also go a lovely six foot thick red robin bush, which I've wanted one of for ages.