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Theres a bit of a tale involved with all our trees (32) of them.
We were at our local nursery looking at potential plants for our new garden, when I noticed this man taking young trees out of their pots and literally just chucking them into the back of a van, when were on our way back to the car, I saw he was still at it, so me being a curious (nosy bugger) sod, I asked him what he was doing, "Composter" was his reply, Shame I said we were looking for a few cheap trees, "you can have em for me, but you'll need to see the boss".
So I spoke to the boss, and he said "£20 for the lot", I said "Delivered", he said "cheeky bugger", but "OK" now we hadn't actually bought the house at that point but we had them delivered there anyway as it was vacant.
When we got there he'd already delivered them onto the drive, so I dragged all 32 around the back out of sight, on looking at the tags, the cheapest one was £38, so a good bargain, especially as he'd included all the plastic pots, which must be £5 each as they are quite big.
Unfortunately most of them don't have any tags so not sure what they are, hence my question.
I've not taken any more pics as the leaves have changed quite a lot in a few days so I'll leave it until fully developed then try again, along with some of the others.
I feel I should recommend great care where you plant unknown trees, you could be storing up a lot of trouble. A Garden Centre is unlikely to be dumping trees which are suitable for a small garden, Alan.
Trees will remain in pots for now, any which prove to be too big for us will be moved on or perhaps re-planted somewhere nice (if no one is looking), or given away FOC.
I don't want to flog this to death Kev but what plants do in pots may not be a reliable indicator of what they will do once planted. Far better to find out what they are. Your first one was a bit tricky to identify, I don't expect they can all be as difficult as that. As you now know it will be easier when they are fully in leaf if you want to post more pictures, Alan.
I don't think it is a maple. A silver maple looks the nearest outline shape in my Field Guide to American Trees, BUT without exception all maple leaves have the veins starting from the stem, not some way down the main vein.
It does have bark which reminds me of birch and cherry new growth but I am no expert.
I don't want to flog this to death Kev but what plants do in pots may not be a reliable indicator of what they will do once planted. Far better to find out what they are. Your first one was a bit tricky to identify, I don't expect they can all be as difficult as that. As you now know it will be easier when they are fully in leaf if you want to post more pictures, Alan.
I don't mind Alan, but nothing will be planted until fully identified, and it's full size growth determined.
I might wait until the leaves are fully developed and take a few down to where they came from.
I forgot to mention that they were destined for the composter because they were less than perfect, but I don't mind that, I tend to get lots of stuff like that, an end of season bargains, I save hundreds that way.
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