(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stan.shepherd/tree2.jpg)
First guess would be a sorbus of some sort, swedish whitebeam maybe. Do you have them growing in the street?
it was growing wild in orkney
Quote from: sawfish on June 04, 2010, 09:46:41
it was growing wild in orkney
In that case it's a very lucky tree... with a very short life expectancy!
Does that mean you dug it up from the wild? That's illegal.
If, as seems likely, it does turn out to be a Swedish whitebeam it will get to between 10 and 20 metres tall and have a trunk of 60cm diametre so I think maybe you'll find you've squished it too close into that corner.
maybe that's what we should do - find trees in a harsh environment, and then give them a better home
like what Madonna does with children
If those leaves are very white underneath it looks very much like Swedish WHitebeam.