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Unknown tree
This tree was only a seedling when we brought the house 18 months ago, now it is 3ft high. I'm not sure what it is, it is about 15 ft from the House. I would like to know what it is and how big it will grow. If it's in the wrong place it will have to go.
thanking you all in advance.
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It looks quite like a walnut tree, but hard to tell!
It does, a bit. If it's walnut, the leaves are made of 5 - 9 (or sometimes more) leaflets, set opposite each other on their stalk, but I think it might be a seedling laurel, in which case the leaves are single, spaced alternately on the stem.
The leaflets in the pic are in pairs so it does look like a walnut - making jolly good growth too - I think it needs moving .... or ............... the big shredder in the sky
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you everyone. It could well be a walnut as there was a walnut tree in the garden years ago, the leaves are not waxy or glossy like a Laurel. It's certainly taken a long time to grow as it was felled about 5 years ago, we are always finding shells. Be a shame to dig it up I like pickled walnuts.
If I decide to keep it, can't it be pruned to keep it compact?
I love pickled walnuts too
If I were you I think I'd have la go at moving it in the winter - taking a good sized rootball.
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There was a saying years ago that suggested you planted a Walnut tree on the birth of a daughter, and felled it when she married...the theory being that the wood was so sort after the price fetched for the timber would pay for the wedding.. I always thought the daughter must have been quite ancient when she tied the knot, as a twenty year old tree wouldn't be that big...... !
Linda, I love it. What a thought eh?
we have decided it can stay where it is for the time being. i will pollard it when it reaches 8 ft or so. If it becomes too unruly well I will fell it for my granddaughters wedding lol.