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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
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i dont know if the one on our block is resistant, but it has survived against the odds. when the guy came to install our trees he actually flipped out as soon as he saw the Elm and was like "wait lets talk about this one". he strongly encouraged us to do the inoculations but those run several hundred dollars and have to be repeated every 3 years for the life of the tree. but A) thats also a lot of money and B) its again technically a city owned tree and most professional contractors will balk at doing any work on one if not hired directly by the city. so at this point we're basically hoping whatever helped it survive to this point will keep going.
you can see it towering over our new sappling. the day it comes down is gonna be real tragic. to think our cities used to be coated in these things.
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Gorgeous specimen!
Have you seen any indication of the disease, and/or had the tree tested?
If not, I'm doubtful on the utility of the treatment, as a tree that old has likely been exposed to the disease before.
If you so see evidence of disease, request trimming of infected limbs urgently as this can arrest its development in many cases.
If you do have a resistant specimen...........there may be somewhere in the U.S. that would collect the seed and grow resistant trees from it.
There is such a project in Ontario as the University of Guelph, but I believe they only collect seed from Ontario.
https://www.uoguelph.ca/arboretum/re...ip/elmrecovery