Some of the real old elm trees, we lost in the 70's, but somewhere in between then and 30 some odd years back, there was some nice re-growth, this place was left to overgrow and recently, within the last few years, all those elm are dying off, might be dutch elm disease (D.E.D.) or something else, as I am aware these is another cause of this. I hate to see it, as some of the trees came up in nice places, they are a really picturesque species to look at, grow relatively fast and with the timing, the ones in prominent places are of use and enjoyment! Now I suppose I may see another round of them given my age, but I would have liked to see these keep going. Some locations you wish another species came up.
I have a dozen more to cut and then some right now. Early last fall I cut as many live but dying, and or dead ones as I could find to help the situation, a few have been spared. I have really nice young one next to a 3 tier scaffold stand, nice cover, shades the entire background, stand, hope like heck it misses that one and another really amazing one at the end of a field, its one that has many more limbs than the ones you see that are tall with a few main limbs and wide canopy.
The only thing you can do with these is get the injection rig from the Elm Reasearch Institute, and inject them with fungicide, preferably in the spring time when the sap rises, and before its been effected, if the tree has already "flagged" meaning a branch up top that has yellowed some leaves, I believe at that point you only have a 50% chance. There is more to it with pruning, I injected an old one, that did flag, took 50+ gallons of the solution up, sadly it did not work, 4'-0" trunk on it too, was about 100 years old if I recall.
I have not priced any of the supplies for this, its relatively simple, harness is tubing with taps you drill and set, like for maple sap, you then mix a batch of solution, and place that in a pressure tank with a schrader valve, then pressurize with your compressor and watch it go up, I should have kept up on this and protected my favorite trees, see if it helps. The set up I bought in the late 90's was $300 shipped with 5 gallons of fungicide concentrate.
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