- How to water a hanging elm?
- Is there a regular need for fertilizer?
- Can the weeping elm tolerate pruning?
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With its drooping branches, the pendulous elm forms a natural arbor and provides pleasant shade at the patio in the garden. Are you still wondering about the care of the decorative deciduous tree? Then you will get precise answers here that will make your gardening easier.
The larger the hanging elm, the less maintenance it needs
How to water a hanging elm?
A weeping elm reacts to drought with an indignant shedding of its magnificent foliage. Therefore, do not let the tree thirst. If the soil dries up, please water thoroughly without causing waterlogging. If the tree thrives in the bucket, this can be necessary every day in summer.
Is there a regular need for fertilizer?
A weeping elm responds very well to a repeated supply of nutrients during the growing season. You can meet this wish with organic fertilizer every 4 weeks. Work in the mature compost, bark humus or horn shavings (€32.93) with the rake on the surface of the tree disc and pour in more. Optionally, you can administer a compound fertilizer on a mineral-organic basis in March and June. From September, no more fertilization, so that the shoots mature before winter.
Can the weeping elm tolerate pruning?
The weeping elm naturally develops a harmonious habit that does not necessarily require a shape cut. In order to steer a ulmus glabra in the desired direction of growth or to keep the circumference under control, there is no concern about a cut. Annual thinning is a mandatory part of the maintenance program. How to do it right:
- The best time for the shape and maintenance cut is during the leafless period in late winter
- In the first step, thoroughly remove deadwood from the entire crown
- Then shorten branches that are too long to the desired extent
- Cut or tear off wild shoots that point steeply upwards
When cutting, please ensure that you always position the scissors just above a leaf knot. In this way you motivate a sleeping eye to bud quickly. These starting points are recognizable as slight elevations under the bark.
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The probably largest elm in Europe could be visited in Thuringia until 2015. With an age of more than 200 years, the tree towered 30 meters above its home town of Grenzhammer in the Ilm district. It was not the dreaded elm bark beetle that put an end to the magnificent tree, but a violent thunderstorm in the evening hours of July 22, 2015.