1. One of the World's Great Camperdown Elms
(A Gardening Journal)

For about twenty-five years, we have been visiting Langdon Hall, a former estate in Ontario that thrives as a Relais & Chateaux hotel. Its gravitational pull is strong as well as multivalent: nearness ...

2. Camperdown Elm in Full Foliage
(A Gardening Journal)

Three weeks ago, this enormous weeping elm was in "full samara," meaning that its spring display of countless pale-green winged seeds—known as samaras—was at its height. Their countless fluffy ...

3. Flowering of Free-Range Scots Elms
(A Gardening Journal)

Since my post on my own glorious but oh-so-sparsely-flowering pollard of Scots elm, I chanced upon two other Scots elms. Both are growing free-range, and both were at heights of floral display so high ...