Odd tree/shrub

No label and not sure I would have planted it where it is growing and nothing like it springs to mind.


About 4 foot tall and either tree or shrub not herbaceous, deciduous. No flowers yet.
TIA.

 

Hi, Pal!

Looks like Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea). I have it here, self-sown by the barn wall. Quite a nice little shrub! There are cultivars like "Midwinter Fire" with more exaggeratedly red stems, I believe.

This link might help to check:

http://www.hainaultforest.co.uk/5Dogwood.htm

[ 21. June 2007, 10:58 AM: Message edited by: Hyla arborea ]

 

The leaf certainly looks like a Cornus, but in that case the seed must have travelled a long way. We have none in our garden, nor has our neighbour and the nearest next garden is well over 2 miles away.
Thanks!

 

Dare I suggest... erm... bird poo??? :D

We have another self-sown plant against the back wall of the bakehouse - right where it would be dropped if... well - you get my drift!

 

In this garden anything is possible. Still, no mater, on investigating it, to make sure we had not planted it, I discovered that it was throwing up suckers so out it has come. There was no compost round the roots so, definitely a 'gift' I have potted up one of the suckers and I will plant it down in the wild garden where it can do no harm. Thanks again.

 

I'd agree that Cornus is a real possibility, based on that leaf - how about philadelphus?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus2/picts/philadelphus_inodorus_leaf.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syll abus2/factsheet.cfm%3FID%3D916&h=360&w=190&sz=25&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=CuPDMXWqBvu5gM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=64&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphiladelphus%2Bleaf%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26 rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2006-49,GGLD:en-GB

On the whole, I think not - leaves are too serrated......

Re-reading your comments, Pal - Cornus defnitely suckers, or more specifically, in my experience, self-layers, so that would make it even more likely in my book!