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The bright yellow leaved Elm makes a compact small tree. I have a little bonsai grove of young plants that will
one day become a rather curious copse. They are recovering from the indignity of a move - the awkward slope they were growing on has been dug out to make a new border and they are currently growing along the front wall. Unfortunately I need to make an access path right up against the wall and so they are going to have to put up with another move. Trees and Shrubs online says: "In their original wild state the wych elm, U. glabra, and the field or smooth elm, U. carpinifolia, occupied largely distinct territories, and despite their affinity and overlapping flowering-times, can have hybridised but rarely. But with deliberate planting, and the destruction of natural barriers, the two elms were brought into closer contact, and the results of their crossing, showing hybrid vigour, having been selected by man at the expense of both parents. U. ‘Dampieri’. – A medium-sized tree of narrowly pyramidal habit, broadening with age. Little known in this country, it was used as a street-tree in Holland and in Belgium, where it originated before 1862. There is a golden-leaved branch-sport of this – U. ‘Dampieri Aurea’ (‘Wredei’)." |
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| 25th November 2005 | ||
