Help? No idea what this is.

This had grown really well in a pot in the last house and had needed putting in the garden to continue growing, and growing it certainly has. It's grown very well in fact so we're are little bit worried we are growing some nuisance rather than something we intended.




[ 12. June 2007, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: Johnny ]

 

The leaves don't look unlike Wisteria, if that should be the case it will certainly grow, ours is up to the roof, we have to get up there somehow and trim it well back else it might start lifting the tiles, a couple of years ago we found it had invaded the loft, snuck in under the eaves. It may take a few years before it flowers but it can carry a mass of blossom for a few weeks in late spring.
This was 4 or 5 years back, it got hacked back a couple of years ago when we had the gutters, barge boards etc all done, it's back up higher if anything.



The car has gone though, at my age it's no longer fun crawling under it.

 

Looks a bit like an Ash seedling to me Johnny, but I could easily be wrong, how did you come by it?
Like the car Mike, not seen one of them for a while. :D

 

Looks like an Ash seedling to me too. could also be a walnut, but I think you'd remember if you planted that.

 

The problem is I've no idea how I came by it?? It has been growing really well in a pot for at least a year or so but needed planting on and when put in the garden took on a whole new lease of life. It must be a tree I'm assuming because of only one woody stem.

I occasionally do plant wild seedlings just to see if anything happens so Ash is a definite possibility.

Should I continue growing it and keep pruning it back as my garden is only 13foot by 30foot and these can grow very big!! I read that you could grow it for 5 years until 15 foot then fell it, plenty of nice firewood and grow another from the seedlings. Don't know if I like the idea of cutting down a tree that's doing well though I think I'd rather plant it in the wild.

[ 13. June 2007, 08:25 AM: Message edited by: Johnny ]

 

Agree with the others, it is an Ash tree. We pull up a gillion seedlings every year, worse thanb Sycamore even and they have tap roots as long as they are tall. I would not recommend planting it in any garden , as they have a reputation for shedding branches for no appparent reason. They also cast heavy shade and are thirsty creatures.

 

Out it comes then, thanks for that Palustris. Large shrub buying visit today me thinks!

[ 13. June 2007, 09:26 AM: Message edited by: Johnny ]

 

There's one way to be certain, a unique feature of Ash is its big black buds.

 

Hi my niece just visited to take it away and she said the same thing. She wondered if it might of been an elder though, Sambucca??

 

It's definitely an ash, Johnny - I see them by the zillion, as Palustris obviously does too!

 

I'm glad of that as they wanted to grow a few for firewood as they have an acre or so to play with, lucky people - sob!!

 

Well I hope they cut them down before they flower. We have an acre or so to play with and just the one big ash tree and we get seedlings over the whole area, even in the lawns! They are worse than sycamore.

 

It looks like a beech to me, certainly not Wisteria or Ash.

Love your Wisteria Mike, looks fab. Our original one took years to bloom (almost gave up on it!), then bloomed for several years and finally died off. A sucker came up several meters away and it grew and bloomed like mad this year.

 

I stand corrected - I now think it looks like this one -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraxinus_ornus

 

Could it be a sorbus (Mountain Ash)?