Elm Dig

[Meagi]

Hi ken do show us some pics when you get a chance .
Looking forward to what you find Damian

[kcpoole]

Just finished resetting up my computer after a hard disk crash so do not have time to show them all, Maybe tomorrow night will get to post them, but here is a teaser

2 Watergum, and 5 Chinese elm

Ken

[Olivecrazy]

are them chinese elm growing wild over there got me one today to like i need more right

[kcpoole]

are them chinese elm growing wild over there got me one today to like i need more right

I am surprised they are not a declared weed acually. the pop up everywhere

Ken

[DustyRusty]

In my council area C elms are declared an 'emerging weed'. Which doesn't mean much. And it's no surprise, they are the dominant street tree along the entire length of the main road. Found a nice little 5cm diameter stump i've been given permission to remove. Unfortunately it has quite severe reverse taper from being cut back and healing badly at some point. So i'm not wasting my time.

[Damian79]

Its taken me a while to get my pics sorted but here are the results of yesterdays dig.
(names are for saving purpose only)

elm 11.jpg

elm 12.jpg

elm 13.jpg

elm 14.jpg

elm 15.jpg

elm 16.jpg

twin trunk1.jpg

twin trunk base.jpg

twin trunk back.jpg

I took your advice Ken and chopped them all back. I hope it was the right thing to do

chopped elms 1.jpg

chopped elms 2.jpg

chopped elms 3.jpg

chopped elms 4.jpg

chopped elms 5.jpg