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The Elm on #5


As many members have noticed the large Elm tree on #5 is looking stressed these days. Once we noticed some decline we brought in our Arbourist to evaluate and recomend further action to protect and save this specimen. Upon further inspection we have not found any direct signs of Dutch Elm disease. Typically you will find canals or tunnelling from the Elm Bark beetle in infected wood. The beetle creates voids and carries the disease to other parts of the tree.
Trees can be stressed for a number of reasons, drought, heat and humidity are all very detrimental to trees.
At this point we are going to do our best to allieviate as much stress on the tree as possible. We will be roping off the area to the left to reduce cart traffic and compaction. We will be aerating the turf around the tree to help with nutrient and water penetration down to the rootzone. This winter we will be doing some pruning and further inspection of the wood. Next spring, we will begin a preventative Dutch Elm disease fungicide treatment. Following these reccomendations from our arbourist will hopefully protect and prevent any further decline of this very important Highland specimen tree.

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