by Resistant Elms | Dec 14, 2014 | News
English Elm The growth and ultimate form of English Elm Perhaps the most frequently asked of all questions about the modern elm cultivars is: will they look like English Elm? The aim of this note is to provide some insights into why English Elm looked as it did –...
by Resistant Elms | Oct 29, 2014 | News
The Plot Elm Of the many forms of elm once to be encountered in rural England – most of them now rendered all the more anonymous by the loss of all mature specimens – the Plot elm is perhaps the most intriguing. The questions which arise in connection with it are...
by Resistant Elms | Sep 12, 2014 | News
Suckering – good or bad? Just as there are those who recall with a shudder the cost and upheaval of removing dead elms from their land at the time of the main disease outbreak, so there are a few people who bear another somewhat lesser grudge against the elm. It tends...
by Resistant Elms | Jun 5, 2014 | News
2014 hybrids – progress report In early spring 2014 ResistantElms continued working to develop new elm hybrids, aiming to build on the experience gained during the creation of the Arcadia progeny in 2013. The principal goals remain (a) to continue crossing the best...
by Resistant Elms | Jun 3, 2014 | News
Elm Yellows In autumn 2013 the UK holder of the licence for U. “Morfeo” noticed unusual colouration in certain plants of that clone. Tests established the presence of the phytoplasma which causes Elm Phloem Necrosis, also known as Elm Yellows (EY). The entire batch of...