THESE ARE NOT HYDRENGEAS
Last summer, mum pulled the dead plants out of these garden beds and relocated what she *thought* were hydrengeas from another garden. They were too small to identify, so she figured they'd keep here outside the downstairs office windows until they were big enough.
They tripled in size from last spring until now, haha!
So now they are the topic of mum's first mystery plant of the season. Mum clipped one of the shoots, making sure she had enough leaves for identification, then went hunting:
leaves - Lobed vs Toothed
bark characteristics
Location etc
Mom used a tree identifier from the Arbor Day Foundation (http://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/) Answered a series of questions and came out with two possibilities.
And the answer is . . . tree! Beech or Birch
They are still too young to tell- but either way, they'll get 60-80 ft tall!
DEFINITELY planning to relocate these suckers while we still can. The thought right now is maybe putting them by the dog kennel, to give it some eventual shade in the years to come. THAT however would require digging a rather large whole in our Irish soil - rocks every two inches! We will need more than a shovel for that.
