On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:20:23 +0000, Elizabeth
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Hi Pam,
Thank you for your reply. On doing a Google Search I find we have a
Beech, which therefore makes it an outdoor one I expect !

I am now a bit concerned that if it is outdoor and now bursting into
growth that I might have missed it's "dormant" period!

Elizabeth
Elizabeth in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
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Have you got a greenhouse, or somewhere you can keep it frost-free?
It is very unusual for an ordinary English Beech to break into leaf
now, but at least you know it is alive! Don't put it out in this
weather! Has it been indoors all year?

Pam in Bristol


Yes, Pam it has.
It was a Marks and Spencer one and it said on the label "indoors" but
I am sure it is a beech ( it didn't say so on the label) but on
googling it certainly looks like one and the leaves do look like a
proper "grown-up one" :-)

Elizabeth in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
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If you are not totally sure, put "beech tree" into Google images, and
you will find lots of pictures including some of the leaves, which are
large. I'm surprised if M&S would recommend an English beech for
indoors. English beech is "fgus sylvatica". There may be other more
tender imported bonsaicalled beech which should be kept frost-free,
but they may have smaller leaves.
I wish I could come and look at it but I'm "down south"! Ask around.
Good luck.

Pam in Bristol