Can you please help identify this plant?

[SconNotScone]

We moved in towards the end of last year. I have dug a load of stuff out the garden over the past few days, and have uncovered 5 or 6 of these (see pics!). I have no idea what they are, can anyone help please?

They have quite woody stems going into the ground, and they are very VERY firmly rooted. They haven’t budged a millimetre, despite all the digging going on around them. As an experiment, I also tried to actually dig up the tiniest one, and it just was not going to move!

Any thoughts please? Sorry if it’s obvious, I’m a complete novice.

wild rose? i have on who is an arsehole

Hydrangea?

cornus? dogwood? ....they are often pruned hard to the ground as then the new shoots keep a colour once all the leaves are gone in the winter.

there are LOADS of different types though.

I can't make out any thorns on it -- does it have any? (if so it could be a rose)
If not, do you have any plum/wild plum/flowering plum trees in the garden? We have bullaces, (wild plums) and it looks a bit similar to shoots that come from them.

Can you show a more close up photo of the leaf and the stem - the woodiest bit you can find?

I think it is cornus.

If it has lines going horizontal on the woody stem, then it is likely to be prunus. If they are going vertical - cornus.

It does look like the suckers I get from the cherry plum in the piece of land next to me .

They sprout from the underground roots which does make them impossible to pull out .I cut mine off - which might be the wrong thing to do !

Was there a tree with lots of blossom about a month ago ,could have been a wild plum tree .

Thanks for all the helpful replies!

My initial thought was some type of rose, based on not much, except the leaves remind me of a rose! No thorns though, that I can see, so possibly not.

The closest blossom tree is some distance away at the front of the house (and these are at the back), and nothing obvious in the neighbouring gardens. What I read about suckers kind of fits with how these present, but in the absence of any trees, unlikely I imagine?

TERF I have attached as close a picture as I can get of the thickest stem. I hadn’t realised until I pulled them apart that there are actually 3 stems all close together.

I planned to plant dahlias in this border, and not sure whether I should leave these here and plant the dahlias around them, or just try my hardest to get rid!

Another vote for suckers