'Nationally significant' tree crashes into Suffolk homes (RIP Caucasian elm)

[Kveldssanger]

'Nationally significant' tree crashes into Suffolk homes - BBC News

 

Such a shame!

[timbernut]

Have visited that tree many times to admire, it had a substantial amount taken of the top a few years ago (looked awful in winter. Incidentally the cul de sac opposite was called hornbeam close after the tree as it was wrongly identified many years ago! Very sad to see it gone😢

[Gary Prentice]

Meant to have a look on TROBI last night about this. Shame, it's survived DED all these years.

[Mick Dempsey]

Big one in Dulwich, we called it a zelkova, resistant to DED Apparently.

[Gary Prentice]

Zelkova's a different genus to elms, but according to the RHS is also suseptable. I'm only quoting what I've just read though.

 

 

Is there still one at Capel Manor, does anyone know?

[David Humphries]

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Is there still one at Capel Manor, does anyone know?

 

Last time I looked, the Zelkova is still there behind the main house at Capel.

 

 

Impressive tree

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[Eddie Eco]

Really sad news about this one, not far from my mum's house and used to climb to sit in the 'bowl' before the crown break when I was a lad! We were once sat in it and some Arbs rocked up for a bit of a general climb/admire of her; said they were 'tree surgeons' and I thought to myself, a tree-surgeon, like a surgeon to trees? That's not a real thing, pull the other one!

 

Does anyone know anything about where the timber is going? Or if there will be a feature made of the stump?

[Gary Prentice]

Thanks David, I worked there one summer in the early eighties, probably 1982. The significant trees I remember include the chestnut on the front lawn and the tulip tree behind the main house.

 

Being a local lad, the cedar and avenue at Forty Hall was also well known to me.

[Mick Dempsey]

Zelkova's a different genus to elms, but according to the RHS is also suseptable. I'm only quoting what I've just read though.

 

 

Is there still one at Capel Manor, does anyone know?

 

Caucasian elm | Attractions At Kew Gardens

[Gary Prentice]

Caucasian elm | Attractions At Kew Gardens

 

And I'll raise you with; https://www.rhs.org.uk › advice › profile

 

To be honest I don't know. Your article says tolerant, which I believe is different to resistant- although both terms are sometimesd used incorrectly. Someone wrote a really good post a while back on what resistance actually means, in regard to breeding DED resistant elms as it happens.

 

Anyhow, opinion appears to be a little divided even amongst the experts.

Try again, rhs.org.uk/plants/details?plantid=2067

Edited May 6, 2015 by Gary Prentice