Unknown shrub growing in pot

Hello,

My wife found this plant growing in a pot that previously had a bit of ivy growing in it. Does anyone know what it is? We think it's a shrub of some sort. It's about 8 or 9 inches in height.

Many thanks for any help

 

Hi I think it may be a pussy willow , not the golden weeping kind though

Spruce

 

Photinia sp

 

Hi Lad
I thought that at first but the leaves are not glossy

Spruce

 

I would say it's possibly a pussy willow; we get them popping up all over the place and have to pull them up, they quite often have a red tinge to the leaves, although not as much as the one in picture..

 

The plot thickens was it the pussy willow in the garden was it the Red robin in thehedge and now the cherry in the trifle who and what next LOL

Spruce

 

I think I know it as goat willow Salix caprea.

 

I will go with the Goat Willow.

 

That's the fella......