Help! Can you identify this please?

[Bluntness100]

Hi

Can anyone identify this please? It's just shot up or I have just noticed it, it is over five feet tall and I have three of them. They are on long woody stems and those stems have no leaves, but there is flowers budding at the top.

I've no clue what they are and they look really unusual.

Thank you!

Here is another pic.

Difficult to tell on my mobile, but is it an ash tree? If so, move it now to somewhere it will have space to grow, and not get in the way of buildings or anything.

If it is ash, check for any signs of disease as it grows. Ash dieback disease has been an issue since 2012.

Oh gosh Are they not flower buds at the end? They literally have shot up in the last few days. If they are trees they need to go,..

The photos are very pixelated but they are definitely some kind of tree! Those are leaf buds

They are truly terrible pictures but agree they look more like trees. Looks like a horse chestnut to me, but could be almost anything, however I have trouble believing whatever it is has shot up in the last few days

Here is one of the top of one of them if it helps,.and thank you,

Are the leaf buds sticky? I vaguely remember being taught that horse chestnut trees had sticky buds. I agree with pp that it looks like one.

I was planting round there about two weeks ago, I can't believe I wouldn't have spotted them, but it is possible ,,,☺️

I'll go and have a feel now.

There is three of them, they are very odd, one has those buds on the way up the stem, the other two are like spears.

It's a bit hard to tell from your photo but I would say horse chestnut or most likely sycamore trees. If you wait a week or two for the leaves you'll know better then.

Yes the buds are very sticky,,

Looks like a horse chestnut to me. They grow v quick. We grew up with loads of them on the back garden.

Oh dear, I think they might be horse chest nut trees. I will keep them till the leaves open but they will need to come out, they have self seeded and there is no way we can have even one chestnut tree there, never mind three,,,😱

why not?

Space probably.

I took over a formerly loved garden that had been neglected for a few years.
Saplings all over the place. Sycamores I think in our place, the buds are black ;

Oops sorry posted by accident.

Saplings everywhere. They've had a few seasons to bed in so are very sturdy now.

Pull it OP, it's unlikely to be a self seeded rare jewel of the garden, get it up while you can

Yes it space, you are right,,they have grown in an area they will have no space, but more than that, three of them have grown in a tiny circle of about a foot and a half.

So yes, sadly they need to come out,, 😔

Have a go at Bonsai!

Lol. I did actually suggest to my husband we moved them to containers, and he looked at me liked id sprung an extra head and said "who grows chestnut trees in containers" 🤣