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Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Any help much appreciated.

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The leaves look like ground elder but I'm not sure about the flowers!

Thanks for that. I think you might be right although the flowers look pink to me. Anyway I guess I'll have to dig it up.

It doesn't look like ground elder to me (but I'm not a ground elder expert). Ground elder flowers are white and the leaves have a mild lemon/parsley-like flavour - which is why it's used for fish and salads - but best not taste the leaves in your garden until you know what you're playing with!

I'll wait until it flowers and add another photo. I quite like it...

It looks to me that there are two intertwined plants with similar leaves.

Plant 1, with slightly variegated leaves and small pink flowers, I don't know what it is.

Plant 2, with uniform-colour leaves and arranged seven leaves to a stem (3+3+1-at-the-end) is a young ash tree which you probably don't want.

You are quite right. It's two. It's like a jungle out there, it makes me wonder....

Here's a photo of each.
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One beech and possibly a viburnum?

I've only just seen this post & you probably already know by now but thought I'd share, in case anyone else is struggling to identify it, the shrub in the first photo appears to be Spirea Japonica (Japanese Meadowsweet) in bud.

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Thanks everyone. Ash trees are beautiful but massive! Anyone fancy an ash tree sapling? Actually I think I have two...

Even when small, ash saplings are a right b****r to remove without pulling up everything else around them. Surgery right at ground level is often as effective and less disruptive.

Thanks. They came out very easily.

Only just seen the picture and the buds look suspiciously like kalmia latifolia (also known as mountain laurel or calico bush). Be careful - all parts are very poisonous.

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