Ulmus americana

The Twin Cities still have a number of beautiful old Elms growing as street trees. I ran across these two magnificent specimens in St Paul last week, and it got me to thinking about how many of our cities still have Elms gracing their streets in relatively large numbers. Is this tree now isolated primarily to far north cities like Minneapolis-St Paul, or can they still be found throughout the U.S.

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Sadly, they are dying here in my town at an alarming rate. It is nice to have the pictures, to go along with the memories. Thanks for posting.

Every once in awhile, the local paper will have a series of photos of all the Elm's that used to grace this town. Especially Elm Place....if it looked a 10th like the pictures, how awesome it was. Sadly, dutch elm disease got them years ago......

Thanks for the great shots.

Scott

There are still two American Elms growing near the house at my old place. They were probably 10 or more years old when we bought and moved into the house, which was in 1944. All the rest of the trees that are growing there are ones that I planted.

DonnaS

You can still find big ones occasionally. This one still survives one county south of us, and is being tested for possible DED resistance.
Guy S.

Who are the good lookin' tree huggers?

i believe it's "wave hill" in ny that has the largest one left on the east coast. sorry i have no pics but it is unbelievable! my understanding is that the tree has injections regularly although they are not sure what the end result will be.

we have lost all in this area. i have two more to remove from my property. problem for me in wanting to replace the native i chose ash.......oh...well i'll just wait for the emerald ash borer to get here:(

which wasn't around when i put them in!

Oh tobee! ;-(

There is an ash growing into my garage. It's on my neighbor's property, and we may end up having to go to court to solve the dilemma of who should remove it. I offered to pay half, and may have to pay all of the cost, but don't want the liability of trespassing on their property to remove it! There's a power line running directly behind it, and than their decrepit "garage" that is covered in poison oak. The village inspector that I contacted about that asked me how I knew it was poison oak, did I have a degree in horticulture? I said, as a matter of fact...no, NOT YET. HaHa. Well, sorry to go off on this rant. I wish I could give emerald ash borer to this one tree.

Not really.

ROFLMAO!

"The tree's pet human !"

And "tree-tolerating" sounds so, well, barely endurable. And she's actually caressing the tree. Someone's got you fooled, Guy!

Nobody ever fools me. (At least, not that I know of . . . )

Guy S.

Ruh -roh!

PartyGirl, stop trying to scare me! Now you have me wondering what all is going on behind my back (or even right under my nose)!

Guy S.