Found in my new garden

Indeed @RowlandsCastle

 

And pears make beautiful trees with lovely white blossom.

 

I was mowing the lawn up the end of the garden today, and came across THIS little tree. No, it wasn't hidden within the tall grass (it wasn't THAT high), but at 2ft high, I'm wondering how come I didn't notice it before. It was hidden behind the shed, where I put the grass cuttings on the compost heap.

Does anyone have any ideas on what it might be?





Sorry about the foot!!

Thank you for your help.

 

Looks like a Beech tree seedling?

 

RowlandsCastle...please may I suggest you start a new thread for any future id queries.

Cannot see leaf detail clearly ..maybe a birch tree or cherry.
Leaves don't look right for Beech tree...see pics below.

 

Cherry?

 

Thank you @BobTG
It looks familiar to me, but I wasn't sure. I'll probably prune it, and plant it somewhere.

I'd like a beech hedge, but one tree doesn't make much of a hedge.

 

Looks very like the wild cherry seedlings I get all the time in the garden. I've got one growing right at the base of the rowan tree. Birds must be sitting there pooping out the stones!

 

If it's a cherry, then I can't imagine it'll produce much fruit for a good few years.
However, we have a flowering cherry at the front of the house, but the leaves are not similar.

 

Hazel?

 

Crush a leaf in your fingers, does it have a slight almond scent.
If it was a cherry it would most likely be wild cherry.

 

Sorry, but the leaf shape is completely wrong for Corylus avellana...common name Hazel.

 

Thank you for your options. I guess I'm going to have to just wait and see.

The leaf shape is not the same as anything else in the garden - which helps rule out some options. With the absence of a label, I have to assume it was either given to the previous owner, or the owner potted up the result of a seed dropped by a passing bird.

 

My 50p is on bird cherry.
There are loads of them lining the fields where I walk with my pooch.
They all produce fruits - eventually - they birds get most of them but I do try different ones as I go around the fields.
Some are quite nice, some are really bitter and or sour, but all have barely any edible fruit on them, it's all stone with a thin covering of flesh.
The pure white blossom in the spring on the mature trees is a sight to behold.

 

Definately not hazel, my money is on cherry