Dutch Elm Disease...darn, darn, darn
 When I say this tree is HUGE, I mean its first branches are thirty feet off the ground and the tree is at least 100ft high! Its old and its beautiful and I'm really upset! |
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That is so sad.  We are losing elms too.
I remember when the 1st wave of Dutch Elm Disease went through in the 70's. We had a tree at home that sounds just like yours. We got some medicine for it from the extension service, but it eventually succumbed. Todd remembers it too in Mankato. All the boulevard trees were elms, and they all died. The city is just now getting the new trees (not elms this time) to be big and canopy over the streets. |
| I feel for you. We lost 2 triangle palms and a hybiscus tree due to cold and frost this winter...the backyard looks naked in that spot....
Also, there is a new bug/disease that in the next 2 years kill off all the oleanders....for those that dont know what an oleander is, its a flowering shrub...they can grow to be 20 feet high...a lot of people use them as privacy fences around their yards....the most stately large ones are in older neighborhoods....ours being one of them....already when we walk panda in the evening we are seeing parts of these tall stately shrubs going brown and dying.....and i guess there is no way to prevent it....... |
| We had a beautiful elm in front of my childhood home. The house was on a "scenic parkway" with a 35 mph limit, restricted from any commercial traffic and had a wide median strip. Don't get the wrong impression though, this was a stretch of road only about a mile and a quarter long, so it wasn't like it was a highway or anything. On both sides of the median strip as well as on the right hand side of each direction were planted elm trees, so that not only the road, but the center of the median were canopied.
They all died and/or were cut down in the early 70's. As got sheep (Dawn) mentions, the last time I drove through I noticed that the replacement trees are just now getting large enough to begin to recreate the canopy, but they still aren't elm trees. Maybe if I drive through again I'll remember to take a camera. |
| Where I grew up (Highland Park, IL) we had tons of gorgeous elms...and lot all of them to Dutch Elm in the 70's. It was very sad. This year, I saw Home Depot has Dutch Elm with is supposidy resistant to the disease!!! I was so happy to see that!!! I miss the Elms. They were beautiful trees. |
| Sorry you are going to lose your tree.
We have a HUGE Eucalyptus tree in the front of our house which keeps the one side of the house shaded most of the day. Hubby wants it gone as it has a lean to it. ( though otherwise it's a very solid tree) Also because it's almost the same price to trim it , that it is to have it taken down. It does need to be trimmed. Well really just a huge limb taken off that is over the house and trimming the top so it doesn't get too top heavy as we have very strong winds here. I keep telling him it is saving us money having the tree because I am sure the A/C bill would go up if it was gone.   |
| I'm so sorry about your tree. No, there's really no saving them. If the beetles that carry it could be stopped, then the roots growing together and touching from tree to tree would spread it. What a shame.
Wow Darcy! That's going to do a number on many hedges, foundation plants and specimen plants in the valley. Some of those shrubs are huge! What a shame. |
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