Hundreds of seedlings sprouting in my garden

Does anyone know what these are? Could they be Ash seedlings, as there is a large Ash tree in my garden? Thanx, Doug.

 

Yep, Ash or Elder, but more likely Ash if there is a tree there.

 

Get them out double-quick!

 

Do you think Ash? Looks like socking big seed-leaves to me, and when do the compound leaves start? Perhaps not with the first true leaves then? (some sort of juvenile foliage until the compound leaves take over later on?) I can't remember what Ash seedlings looks like, but we have Ash trees here and I don't remember seeing seedlings like that. Mind you, I may be swayed by the carpet bombing from the Sycamores :(

 

No, thats why I was thinking Elder Kristen, might have been left by a Field Fare with a bad bottom.

 

They (or their chums) leave Hollies for me a particular patch of Silver Birch that they favour as their stomping ground (or maybe dumping ground!) and I dig up 20 or 30 seedlings every year. Thanks Very Much Chaps !!

 

I would say ash seedlings, i got lots growing in my drive looks the same and the same second leaf

 

They look exactly like the millions of Ash seedlings I am pulling out today!

 

Thanks peeps. I will leave them at the min, as they are easily pulled out, and take more photos in a week or so and post.

 

That's very true. They are fiendish to remove once they get to a certain size. Strangely though when they get to a couple of feet tall they pull out much more readily.
You have to watch when you try to pull them out as they snap at ground level and then you get a multi stemmed tree.

 

They hide under bushes & hedges and before you know it there's a small tree growing out the top.

 

Also true of my Sycamore seedlings :(