Sapling ID required please

Can anyone ID this sapling please - it's popped up between a Hydrangea and a Rose cutting and seems a bit out of place in the flower bed ..... I was thinking of transplanting it elsewhere but I guess that is best done in the autumn/winter?

 

I thought that too!

 

Thanks very much. I do in fact have some hazel saplings but they don't look like this so I wasn't sure - having said that, you're probably 100% correct.

So if I want to transplant it should I wait until it drops its leaves? I guess doing it now would disturb it too much (then again, if I do it now at least it won't have as many roots to disturb).

 

Noted, thank you!

 

Don't think it's a hazel, looks more like an alder (Alnus glutinosa) to me.

If it's an alder, I wouldn't bother keeping it @TheMadHedger, unless you've got room for a very big tree in your garden.

Alders can get very big, very quickly. It will also produce lots of seeds which will result in many more alder seedlings springing up all over your garden.

 

Thanks very much, for a sapling it has grown very fast over the past couple of months (far more so than my horse chestnut, oak and hazel saplings which I grew from nuts found in the wild). If that's in any way indicative of how fast it will continue to grow then I definitely need to at least move it far away from my house.