Plant or weed?

[SundayGirlB]

Hello! Hopeless gardener who has inherited a mature garden from previous owners. This plant keeps cropping up (no pun intended) and growing quite quickly - is it a weed and if not, anyone know the plant?

Thanks

Sorry it posted weirdly!

Looks like sycamore - I doubt it's been planted, but if you don't want a huge tree, I'd remove quickly, as they grow fast!

@Minimonkeysmum gosh a tree?! Eek better get out sharpish.

We’ve got one growing out of the wall between our yard & next door’s! They’re very good at establishing themselves!

No danger of it turning into a huge tree - at least I don’t think so - but I suppose it will damage the wall eventually if we leave it there...

That’s very similar to one of my hydrangeas.

If you’ve inherited a large mature garden and aren’t really a gardener , please may I recommend having a compost heap ? We have green council collection, but I’d be lost without having somewhere to chuck all the cuttings and the compost is so useful in the garden after a year or so. :-)

Looks like a sycamore sapling to me too.
Get rid!

Think I'll get rid then!

There are hundreds of tiny sycamores popping up in my garden. I'm forever pulling them up!

You do know that weeds are plants? It isn't an either/or.

Mere yep, understand that. Luckily other posters have understood my question and posted helping advice.

Since other posters had already answered, there was no need for me to repeat what they'd said. But the diversity of our wild plants is under threat, and efforts to protect them aren't helped by a general public perception that there are worthy plants - those not native to UK, or highly bred - and there are weeds. Not helped also by plantings of exotic annuals being referred to as "wildflower meadows".

@MereDintofPandiculation luckily we have a thriving garden and many, many wild plants which we struggle to keep on top of, it's a balance between letting nature have its way and what we can reasonably cope with. We learnt that the hard way with ivy!

I absolutely hear what you're saying but none of that came across in your first post, it was just a bit patronising really and felt unnecessary on this sort of thread.