Didn't plant anything resembling this

[woodyguy]

The second one is silver birch. Downy birch has fine serrations but all fairly even. Silver has big serrations with small serrations upon them, if you get what I mean. First one looks like a poplar but not aspen. Too many to call by leaf.

[spandit]

Leaves look a bit big to be silver birch - the ones that have self seeded all over the place have much smaller leaves than that (it's why I didn't want to pay for any when I get them for free!).

 

The only ones that were planted in spirals were blackthorn, hawthorn, spindle and hazel. As I mentioned, there's no dead stick in the spiral - this is what was planted. Curious to see what it turns out to be. I'll try to get a picture of the bark in due course

[sandspider]

Time you updated your blog!

[spandit]

Time you updated your blog!

 

You are right. I lost momentum when my laptop blew up and since replacing it I haven't got round to updating it again

[Eddy_t]

The first I would guess is an aspen x black poplar, there were a few at the APF, second is silver birch, judging by the leaf and twig colour

[hedgesparrow]

There are plenty of silver birch coming up naturally but these have definitely been deliberately planted - there are no other bareroot trees in the same tubes/spirals so must have been a mix-up at the nursery. Not overly bothered, having a mixture is good, but would just like to know what they are.

 

Busy surveying all my trees at the moment - ordered a load of numbered cable ties to mark the ones that didn't make it:

 

 

Surveying them takes quite a while and entering it all into a database takes even longer but I do like being nerdy with statistics

for good plants two suppliers top notch mill farm trees winchester, or murry mc clean oxford both do top notch plants. not had any die that was planted and what i asked for is what i get. i normally plant january early feb as best time to plant. they then wake up and start to grow

[daltontrees]

Leaves look a bit big to be silver birch - the ones that have self seeded all over the place have much smaller leaves than that (it's why I didn't want to pay for any when I get them for free!).

 

The only ones that were planted in spirals were blackthorn, hawthorn, spindle and hazel. As I mentioned, there's no dead stick in the spiral - this is what was planted. Curious to see what it turns out to be. I'll try to get a picture of the bark in due course

 

Very young ilver birch have large leaves, some self-seeders in my garden are 4 inches long. This is just the juvenile stage, they're definitely definitely birch and if you leave them you will see normal size leaves developing in subsequent years.

 

I'd keep them in preference to self-seeders, nursery stock is usually better quality than natural stock, developing better form and foliage.

[spandit]

I'm not going to remove them but the self seeders will not get deliberately targeted. Might get mown down or eaten. Not a massive fan of birch as it rots so quickly which is another reason I didn't order any.

 

Thanks for replies

[spandit]

Mystery solved with one of them - it was planted as an alder but a birch has grown through the same tube - it's about 8' tall now...

 

[Goaty]

Time to choose. Life and death. Only 1 winner.