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Growing => Identification => Topic started by: Alex_ on April 15, 2020, 09:30:32 pm

Title: what is this plant please?
Post by: Alex_ on April 15, 2020, 09:30:32 pm

Hi,
What is this? I think it might be a tree but i am not sure.
Thank you for any help

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: arobwk on April 15, 2020, 09:42:35 pm

Tough one so early in spring growth, but I'm going to place a 10 penny bet on it being some sort of willow !?

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Anke on April 15, 2020, 09:50:18 pm

Hydrangea?

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: arobwk on April 15, 2020, 10:10:47 pm

Quote from: Anke on April 15, 2020, 09:50:18 pm

Hydrangea?

Naagh !  But now it is really worth a 10p bet because you had me wondering a moment, but I'm still saying willow  :) .
A week or so will confirm. 

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Fleecewife on April 15, 2020, 11:38:52 pm

It's a 'wait and see' plant - wait until it does something like flower, then see what it is.

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: chrismahon on April 16, 2020, 06:48:32 am

We have wild plum and damson here and the leaves look very similar- that's my 10p guess.

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Possum on April 16, 2020, 07:54:08 am

Buddleia?

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Alex_ on April 16, 2020, 09:50:32 am

Thanks for the ideas. Guess I will wait and see before I pull it or not.

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: doganjo on April 16, 2020, 04:56:45 pm

My 10p guess is elder  :coat:

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: arobwk on April 17, 2020, 04:32:38 pm

Quote from: Possum on April 16, 2020, 07:54:08 am

Buddleia?

My resolve is weakened by your suggestion Possum (& your's chrismahon), but this far on with a 10p bet there's no going back.   :)

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: macgro7 on April 17, 2020, 06:37:12 pm

Quote from: Possum on April 16, 2020, 07:54:08 am

Buddleia?

That's what I thought but would rather vote for hydrangea .
You cant be sure from the picture I'm afraid.
I can be sure that the goats would eat it in no time  ;D

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: arobwk on May 13, 2020, 04:26:02 pm

Any chance of photographic update [member=162324]Alex_[/member]  ??

(I need to know whether I ought, perhaps, budget for a pay-out on 10p bets.  LOL)

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: doganjo on May 13, 2020, 09:24:54 pm

I've had another look at it and come to the conclusion it's hydrangea - one reason is that my friend says they are very easy to propagate - so it's probably self seeded.  I'm going to take a bit off my huge hydrangea at the front door and  try it

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Alex_ on May 19, 2020, 09:53:56 am

It hasn't done a lot but it is in an unused bed (disappointing germination rates this year)

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Anke on May 19, 2020, 02:16:56 pm

Oh well, it is a goat willow after all....

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: arobwk on May 19, 2020, 07:44:33 pm

Quote from: Anke on May 19, 2020, 02:16:56 pm

Oh well, it is a goat willow after all....

Mmm - willow is indeed looking quite probable  :)
I wouldn't say conclusive yet, but I do have my calculator out to tot up potential winnings:  so that would be 10p x ....    :fc:   :D

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Womble on May 20, 2020, 07:56:45 am

Quote from: Anke on May 19, 2020, 02:16:56 pm

Oh well, it is a goat willow after all....

You mean "false blueberry"?  ;D

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Alex_ on May 20, 2020, 11:12:20 am

Thanks everyone. It will probably get pulled soon. When i can find the time.

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: Anke on May 20, 2020, 11:42:13 am

Quote from: Womble on May 20, 2020, 07:56:45 am

Quote from: Anke on May 19, 2020, 02:16:56 pm

Oh well, it is a goat willow after all....

You mean "false blueberry"?  ;D

Indeed, I have got my own little "I don't know what it will be I will just leave it in a pot until I can see...) false-blueberry-turned-goat-willow on my greenhouse potting bench...

Title: Re: what is this plant please?
Post by: arobwk on May 20, 2020, 03:29:35 pm

Quote from: Alex_ on May 20, 2020, 11:12:20 am

Thanks everyone. It will probably get pulled soon. When i can find the time.

If you leave pulling it very much longer Alex_ you will end up having to expend more time getting it out!  I'm sure other posters will agree and are already checking their purses for a 10p coin  :D :D