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Mary AnneMary Anne Posts: 118
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Does anyone recognise this deciduous shrub? It was given to me by a neighbour so I want to ensure I take into account where I decide to locate it...thanks

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  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,456
    Looks like a willow to me
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,022
    edited April 2019
    If it's goat willow, you don't want it!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,857
    Looks like a goat willow to me too in which case it's a thug of little or no ornamental value and the scope for self-seeding a forest in your garden.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,090
    Agree with all the above, don’t put it in your garden.  I would locate the top of it chopped in the compost bin and the roots in the dustbin. Sorry. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 87,006
    Lyn said:
    Agree with all the above, don’t put it in your garden.  I would locate the top of it chopped in the compost bin and the roots in the dustbin. Sorry. 
    Afraid I agree.  It would be fine if you have a large wildlife area of several acres ... it’s not a tree for a ‘garden’. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Mary AnneMary Anne Posts: 118
    Thanks everyone wise advise....
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