BonzerBob

On 29/07/2021 at 19:38, sime42 said:

On 29/07/2021 at 17:45, sime42 said:

Agree. Cercis siliquastrum. Nice little decorative tree.

I probably got that wrong, it's more likely Cercis canadensis, with the red leaves.

Spot on Sime, canadensis Forest Pansy.

Magdeburgensis?

There's been a lot of alder beetle around this spring and the sawfly larvae are pretty easy to spot.

Having said that I can't see any alder beetle in your picture either, but they do move on.

Forest Research have it as "Narrow-leaved ash (F. angustifolia), a mainland European species also widely planted in the UK, is also susceptible".

There is a Raywood I see regularly that we planted about 15 - 20 years ago, the 2nd summer we had Chalara in the common ash in our area it was definitely showing signs of it, but then it did seem to pick up really well. I went and looked at it today and it looks awful but then ash are running late this year and it might still come through.

There is a Jaspidea next to it and that looks completely b*ggered.

I wonder if it's yedoensis/yoshino.

In the street view pictures there is only one from April, it's in flower then, the young leaf is green, and there are 2 pictures from May of different years, but the flower is finished by then, but I can't make out if it's a single or a double.

What is the dilemma? If it's too big you can hit it back really hard in the winter and it will come back, just with a bigger leaf. The golden one works best when it's pollarded every year.

They are late into leaf each year and they can get wind damaged easily.

It looks like a Catalpa/ Indian Bean of some sort to me.

10 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

This thread confuses me - answers aren’t in order so don’t appear to make sense....

The default setting seems to be "sort by votes" now rather than "sort by date", the button is on the right of the screen under the pictures of the OP's endeavours, sadly they seem at the top of every page now so there's no getting away from them.

Those aren't grafted, they're hardwood cuttings.

Looks quite a lot like strobus.

Definitely not the birch!

I think on a non-combustible floor the slab the burner sits on is more to comply with the "visual warning area" regulations so that the stove is on a platform of a slightly different height to the rest of the floor.

Crimean for me.

There's always Liquidambar Slender Silhouette, it wouldn't take up too much room, but like all Liquidambar, they are a bit prone to wind damage.

The birch would have more of an open canopy but is quite surface rooting, gets aphid, so honeydew, and as a bigger tree drops a lot of twigs. 

All things being equal if the tree is in the top right, eastern corner, a lot of the canopy, and root development will tend to head towards the south and west.

South Wales and woodland it's got to be T. cordata hasn't it? The leaf and branch looks right.

As Tomo567 has rightly spotted.

It's Cercidiphyllum, either japonicum, or japonicum Pendulum if steeply weeping.

Weeping Katsura?

There's a large one I see regularly. 3-4 year's ago I would have said it definitely had dieback, lot's of dead in the 1-2 year old wood, that yoghurty creamy-orange discolouration at the bottom of the younger dead branches, now it looks absolutely fine.

Whether it's somehow come through it or not I don't know.

Raywood Ash.

Could it be Fraxinus monophylla? It's a long time since I've seen one but the leaf looks right.

Hoheria, and not very well.

I have one in my front garden, it's about 4.5m tall and 6m wide and has been in there about 10-15 years. It probably would be taller but the sea wind funnels down the side of the house and blasts right into it.

It's nice when it's in flower but it's a bugger for dropping tiny leaves all over the car windscreen which then stick under the wipers.

The wood on young growth on Acacia dealbata tends to be a lot greener, Albizia is slower growing but hardier.

Still a bit blurry but Parrotia persica maybe?

Sorry about the gap, Flowering crabapples, the genus Malus, by Father John Fiala is very good.