It looks like a rowan to me - good for wildlife - the birds love the berries (which is probably how it came to be where it is). Worth keeping - if it's not in the best place for it (and it does look a mite close to that fence) I'd move it in the autumn when it's dormant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There's lots of conflicting statements on the net.
Rowan berries are used to make jellies for human consumption. They are not eaten raw by humans as they taste acrid and like many berries can cause stomach upsets if eaten raw.
The majority of rowan berries are eaten by wild birds.
In my experience I have never known a dog to eat rowan berries (and I've had many rowan trees and many greedy dogs). There are lots of plants and berries that could cause stomach upsets to dogs if they ate a large amount of them, but because they taste unpleasant dogs don't eat them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The picture is not of an ash tree - rowans are sometimes mistaken for ash trees but the difference is quite marked - rowan or sorbus acuparia leaves grow alternately up the stem, whereas the English ash fraxinus acuparia has leaves which grow in pairs opposite each other.
NB. this refers to the leaves, not the leaflets.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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It looks like a rowan to me - good for wildlife - the birds love the berries (which is probably how it came to be where it is). Worth keeping - if it's not in the best place for it (and it does look a mite close to that fence) I'd move it in the autumn when it's dormant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Are the berries poisonous to dogs?
There's lots of conflicting statements on the net.
Rowan berries are used to make jellies for human consumption. They are not eaten raw by humans as they taste acrid and like many berries can cause stomach upsets if eaten raw.
The majority of rowan berries are eaten by wild birds.
In my experience I have never known a dog to eat rowan berries (and I've had many rowan trees and many greedy dogs). There are lots of plants and berries that could cause stomach upsets to dogs if they ate a large amount of them, but because they taste unpleasant dogs don't eat them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you. I think I will keep and move when dormant.
Yup the Rowan or Mountain Ash,it looks beautiful.
They are lovely trees. Proper 3 season interest; folwers, fruit, nice mid-green leaves and autumn colour.
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looks like an ash tree to me- if so- get rid pronto
The picture is not of an ash tree - rowans are sometimes mistaken for ash trees but the difference is quite marked - rowan or sorbus acuparia leaves grow alternately up the stem, whereas the English ash fraxinus acuparia has leaves which grow in pairs opposite each other.
NB. this refers to the leaves, not the leaflets.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.