Does anyone here recognize this plant. ( bush type) . I have no idea what it is and it is in a garden that I wish to redo. If anyone should recognize it , I would be very grateful with an ID so I can dig it and set it somewhere that it gets the very best conditions for it .

Thanks for your help in advance

Really need you to back off a bit, hard to tell when I can't see the plant.
possible nandina... A weed here.

Looking at some of the peeled back material also suggests hickory or something... So... Really can't say from this photo.

Thanks for your input !

stone said: Really need you to back off a bit, hard to tell when I can't see the plant.
possible nandina... A weed here.

Looking at some of the peeled back material also suggests hickory or something... So... Really can't say from this photo.

Sorry leaf shape and arrangement is not right for Nandina.
Don't think that Hickory is a match either.

More photos?

Agree with stone; that could very well be a Hickory (Carya sp.) seedling. The pinnate compound leaves are right. The "showy" (colorful) part of the buds peeled back (interior to and below the leaves) are certainly right.

Depending on where in Ontario Canada that signet is gardening, there are several species possible (with 5 leaflet leaves):

**Carya glabra
**Carya laciniosa
**Carya ovata

The showy bud (scales?) are such a great feature in and of themselves. Unsuspecting people think they are flowers, they are so colorful. I've attached examples below.

Looks like there could be more than one stem there, like someone cut the original plant off and a couple resprouts are now breaking bud and leafing out.

Need some additional images, especially side views of the whole plant(s) and at least one that shows the stems that those new leaves are growing from.

ViburnumValley..I thought the coloured bits were flowers.
Stone was spot on.
Sorry that I doubted the suggestion.

I would still like signet to post some more imagery, for verification - but I think that is it.

Isn't Hickory a fun plant? I don't know how many of them you might find around Scotland, though I suspect someone has smuggled one or two of them in.

The emerging leaves look so much like hands clasped in prayer, or beseeching a higher power. Those colorful scales (or whatever the right botanical term is) are so beautiful, and ephemeral. They remind me so much of spent Tulip petals.

Catching those images above in Shawnee Park on a cool April afternoon in 2011 was serendipitous.