tjandrews
Silver Member
Around here, there's no such thing as an "old" elm. Dutch elm disease got all the old ones decades ago. My grandfather liked having elms around, calling them "Nature's lightning rods." He claimed he'd seen several times when lightning had hit an elm rather than a nearby building.
We still have elms around, but they are a shadow of what the old ones used to be. They get just about big enough to reproduce a couple of times when disease takes them out.
We still have elms around, but they are a shadow of what the old ones used to be. They get just about big enough to reproduce a couple of times when disease takes them out.