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Henry 1y ago

These two trees are some of the only surviving English Elms (Ulmus minor 'Atinia') surviving outside of East Sussex. Why?... No one knows I reckon it could be to do with the nearby stream and spring providing something to them which they didn't have elsewhere in the country though it could also be some kind of genetic resistance.

Either way I have taken some cutting to try to propogate them. Unfortunately someone has lifted the crown of the tree recently so I had to get some off the ground but hopefully they will take with some of the #bokashi and #amf #fungiI have been making.

Either way it would be nice to have these trees back all over the country and the wood has beautiful grain pattern for furniture and is resistant to water so it was used to use it for waterpipes!

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Troy 1y ago

If you have a willow branch, put it in the soil near your Elm cutting. It has a natural rooting compound that does wonders.

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Henry 1y ago

Good idea I do need to make some willow rooting compound. I put the cutting near a willow so hopefully they are getting exudates from it.

Apparently these Elms root easily and part of the reason the 'Dutch elm disease' is meant to have hit them so hard is they rarely grew from seed so were meant to have been genetically very similar propogating from suckers etc.

Unfortunately most were dead by the time I was born so I am mostly just going by what people say.

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nobody 1y ago

Wow that’s decades of shitty pruning principles at work. No wonder there’s not many left. Pollarding and topping opens up trees to pest and disease incursion in the worst way.

https://www.amazon.ca/Tree-Pruning-Worldwide-Photo-Guide/dp/0943563089/ref=asc_df_0943563089/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459164632946&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8470725171418927002&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001429&hvtargid=pla-570566348151&psc=1&mcid=f72d3fac7c9d3a86b03070c0849cb83c

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Henry 1y ago

Certainly didn't help especially with the damage done by tractor flail cutters Vs traditional hedge laying. Along with all the modern farming practices that have degraded the soil.