ELMS

  

Some four years ago Alan's grandsons planted three elm trees, supposedly dutch-elm-disease resistant, supplied by a friend of Jim Dadd's.  It hardly showed at the time but they were of two different species: Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) and so-called English Elm (Ulmus procera)  

  

'Glabra' means 'smooth' referring to the bark so you can see that we have Wych Elm on the left, and the corky bark of English Elm on the right.  Wych Elm also has rather larger leaves.