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Originally Posted by Ian
Thanks for replying, the leaves are still soft and as hard to pull off as he green leaves. It is as though autumn has come for the top half of the tree. I tried o upload a picture of the tree within the thread, but I had a message saying it was too large. If you go to my gallery I have put a picture on there.
Ian
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1) I see what you mean and I have a Chinese Elm with leaves which are very similar to yours. I can't speak authoritatively about this but, in my case, the tree does not appear to be "sick" and IS continuing to grow. I'm guessing it's a reaction to late cold weather - could be all that snow in March that did it. I plan to just keep monitoring and see what happens.
2) Photo's can be max 800x800 AND must be less than 75K in size. You can achieve this in MS Photo editor by a combination of cropping, resizing and also adjusting the JPG quality settings while saving.
If your elm were mine, I would chop it all the way back to the first two branches - and even chop those back to within 10cm of the trunk... I would make that tree approx 1/4 the size of what it is now. The branches are all a bit too long and bare and it's too tall for the girth. But first I would wait to see what happens with the leaf colour change...
Jerry