3 trees to ID please?

[Stubby]

I'm going 1 Sycamore , 2 Field Maple , 3 Beech .

[sime42]

Field Maple is a good shout, the bark on #2 looks most like that. That big fat black bud on a green twig is a major anomaly though.

 

The only one I can be sure of is #3 being Beech.

[Matt.H]

Now I’m looking for them, there are black buds on a number of those log types.

[spandit]

On 03/04/2025 at 12:38, Steven P said:

Willow is full of water so takes a while to dry.

I find it dries pretty quick - I think the tubes that make up the structure are larger diameter than some other woods and so let the water out quicker. Anyway, I have so much of it, it's one of my favourite woods to burn as it is pretty renewable

[sime42]

Yep. Quick to grow, quick to dry, quick to burn. That's Willow.

[peds]

39 minutes ago, spandit said:

I find it dries pretty quick - I think the tubes that make up the structure are larger diameter than some other woods and so let the water out quicker. Anyway, I have so much of it, it's one of my favourite woods to burn as it is pretty renewable

 

I flipping love goat willow. So versatile. Left alone for long enough they can grow into a pretty sturdy single-stem tree, you get straight-enough poles for the garden from coppice, it thickens up quick enough for a rotation of easy to process firewood, the skinny stuff chips so easily in summer for a high-nitrogen woodchip mulch that rots away into the soil in no time...

...and on top of all that they are a great provider of early season forage for pollinators, and the cracks left in twisted and half-broken stems can make a brilliant habitat for bats.