I have 3 gigantic ones in my yard. They all have that bacteria drippage on them. Im hoping i can help them somehow because the shade is really nice in Colorado. 😅
I live in the high desert of california. These siberian elms are a weed! They grow anywhere and everywhere with no water and they grow extremely fast and dense. Very prone to disease and have these bugs that excrete a sticky substance all over my vehicles. Up until this video i have been calling them chinese elms but now i know the difference of the bark.
I appreciate your care for trees. I love trees too, but years ago our neighbour planted a row of Siberian Elms along our fence line. Now we cannot plant in ground because they suck all the nutrition out of the ground, develop a dense fiberous root system, and lean as they get older. The seeds sprout profusely everywhere. Since we have many species of birds who like to sit in these trees (owls, eagles, cedar wax wings, crows, woodpeckers, etc) we don't want them cut down but we sure need them controlled somehow. Nothing builds nests in them. The wood is extremely dense and heavy. We live in a small city that is rapidly destroying wetlands and concreting everything possible so are concerned about the ecosystem so any suggestions on how to manage these invasive trees is welcomed.
You could have a certified arborist see if some pruning on your side of the fence might help. You might also ask the arborist about root pruning/trenching on your side of the fence, but this could impact tree health. Locate arborists at treesaregood.org
Have you noticed a population of elm seed bugs? They look like miniature boxelder bugs. They feed exclusively on the seeds of Siberian elm trees, as far as I know. I have a siberian elm growing nearby, and the bugs are everywhere. Anyway, getting to the point: If you don't already have a population of these bugs, and if you think the bugs might be less of a nuisance than the sprouts, I imagine introducing the bugs might cut down on the sprouts. The bugs don't cause any damage to anything else as far as I know, but they do like to find their way into houses and annoy people. So pick your poison I suppose.
How can it be called invasive tho of it was intentionally broght here and planted. I see no problem with it other than drops branches alot. Its a good tree
It does spread to woodlands, fallow ground and other habitats, competing with native plant communities. Many invasives were intentionally planted originally, but have since become “weedy” and spread to native habitats and are thus categorized as invasives. This is the official list of invasive plants for Indiana: www.entm.purdue.edu/iisc/invasiveplants.php
@@purduefnrextension I know and what's bad is not the invasive species but the diseases ad pest they bring. Carp are an example. I just like siberian elm trees. I has two in my backyard as a child. I lived on a street called Elmwood Avenue but all the American elms died and my backyard had two big siberians that are still there today but very much dead. It gets too dry here in nebraska for them but they grow anyways.
Siberian Elms were brought to the Canadian Prairies as a replacement for American Elms which were afflicted with Dutch Elm Disease in the mid-1970s. They were touted as "fast-growing", "reliable grower" & "sterile". In China, they are bred as "hedge trees" because they grow so fast. If you trim them yearly, they don't produce seeds in the millions. Thing is they are not sterile. They produce leaves before seeds and compared to American Elms, they have 4 times the amount of seeds. Here, in mid-June, these are blown off the branches as they dry, sending "showers of seeds to the ground". They fly wherever the wind takes them: between car hood seams and windshield cup which then spews them into the air intake and out the car vents, into houses with the wind (and they're hard to suck with a vacuum!), streams, crevasses between paving stones, next to house foundations, in gardens, next to garages, in house gutters where they grow and block water from getting to the downspouts causing wood rot in the eaves, between fence slats and next to posts...wherever they can find a tiny spot to grow. By the 3rd week of June, there is a "carpet" of seeds clogging the sewer drains in the streets. If not cleared and the seeds get wet, they sprout. If you don't pull out the seedlings in the first season of growth - the year they settle on the ground - by the next Spring, their roots are 2.5 times longer than their height above ground. If you let them grow, then attempt to cut them down, the trunks fork out and continue growing. If you let them grow next to a house foundation, their roots are strong and large enough to push through the concrete or find a way to burrow between stones, thus weakening the house's stability. They also love water and are worse than willows (salix), as they wrap themselves around weeping tiles and clay pipes underground causing major water main breaks. In the mid-80s my city attempted to use them as erosion control shrubs by planting 60 trees along the bank of a main river. The "shrubs" were 8 years old. They didn't stop the erosion, they made it worse. The roots cracked the sewer drain caps diverting the sewage to the river instead of the holding pond, and, during our Spring ice flow, "slid" into the river taking the river bank they were supposed to stop from eroding, creating a worse-case scenario and the project was abandoned within 2 years. I'm in my 70s and have seen the ravage these trees have done to my city. They are not nice trees to have. Our children were also allergic to the pollen caused by the seeds in Spring. If you've got seedlings now, pull them up as soon as you spot them. So now you might understand the reason why the trees are currently considered to be "invasive". The other reason is that once they invade our forests they take over whole acres of them and the areas are growing, cutting off valuable seedlings food and earth to grow and flourish.
I have 3 gigantic ones in my yard. They all have that bacteria drippage on them. Im hoping i can help them somehow because the shade is really nice in Colorado. 😅
I live in the high desert of california. These siberian elms are a weed! They grow anywhere and everywhere with no water and they grow extremely fast and dense. Very prone to disease and have these bugs that excrete a sticky substance all over my vehicles. Up until this video i have been calling them chinese elms but now i know the difference of the bark.
I appreciate your care for trees. I love trees too, but years ago our neighbour planted a row of Siberian Elms along our fence line. Now we cannot plant in ground because they suck all the nutrition out of the ground, develop a dense fiberous root system, and lean as they get older. The seeds sprout profusely everywhere. Since we have many species of birds who like to sit in these trees (owls, eagles, cedar wax wings, crows, woodpeckers, etc) we don't want them cut down but we sure need them controlled somehow. Nothing builds nests in them. The wood is extremely dense and heavy. We live in a small city that is rapidly destroying wetlands and concreting everything possible so are concerned about the ecosystem so any suggestions on how to manage these invasive trees is welcomed.
You could have a certified arborist see if some pruning on your side of the fence might help. You might also ask the arborist about root pruning/trenching on your side of the fence, but this could impact tree health. Locate arborists at treesaregood.org
Thank you@@purduefnrextension
Have you noticed a population of elm seed bugs? They look like miniature boxelder bugs. They feed exclusively on the seeds of Siberian elm trees, as far as I know. I have a siberian elm growing nearby, and the bugs are everywhere.
Anyway, getting to the point: If you don't already have a population of these bugs, and if you think the bugs might be less of a nuisance than the sprouts, I imagine introducing the bugs might cut down on the sprouts.
The bugs don't cause any damage to anything else as far as I know, but they do like to find their way into houses and annoy people. So pick your poison I suppose.
How can it be called invasive tho of it was intentionally broght here and planted. I see no problem with it other than drops branches alot. Its a good tree
It does spread to woodlands, fallow ground and other habitats, competing with native plant communities. Many invasives were intentionally planted originally, but have since become “weedy” and spread to native habitats and are thus categorized as invasives. This is the official list of invasive plants for Indiana: www.entm.purdue.edu/iisc/invasiveplants.php
@@purduefnrextension I know and what's bad is not the invasive species but the diseases ad pest they bring. Carp are an example. I just like siberian elm trees. I has two in my backyard as a child. I lived on a street called Elmwood Avenue but all the American elms died and my backyard had two big siberians that are still there today but very much dead. It gets too dry here in nebraska for them but they grow anyways.
Siberian Elms were brought to the Canadian Prairies as a replacement for American Elms which were afflicted with Dutch Elm Disease in the mid-1970s. They were touted as "fast-growing", "reliable grower" & "sterile". In China, they are bred as "hedge trees" because they grow so fast. If you trim them yearly, they don't produce seeds in the millions. Thing is they are not sterile. They produce leaves before seeds and compared to American Elms, they have 4 times the amount of seeds. Here, in mid-June, these are blown off the branches as they dry, sending "showers of seeds to the ground". They fly wherever the wind takes them: between car hood seams and windshield cup which then spews them into the air intake and out the car vents, into houses with the wind (and they're hard to suck with a vacuum!), streams, crevasses between paving stones, next to house foundations, in gardens, next to garages, in house gutters where they grow and block water from getting to the downspouts causing wood rot in the eaves, between fence slats and next to posts...wherever they can find a tiny spot to grow. By the 3rd week of June, there is a "carpet" of seeds clogging the sewer drains in the streets. If not cleared and the seeds get wet, they sprout.
If you don't pull out the seedlings in the first season of growth - the year they settle on the ground - by the next Spring, their roots are 2.5 times longer than their height above ground. If you let them grow, then attempt to cut them down, the trunks fork out and continue growing. If you let them grow next to a house foundation, their roots are strong and large enough to push through the concrete or find a way to burrow between stones, thus weakening the house's stability. They also love water and are worse than willows (salix), as they wrap themselves around weeping tiles and clay pipes underground causing major water main breaks.
In the mid-80s my city attempted to use them as erosion control shrubs by planting 60 trees along the bank of a main river. The "shrubs" were 8 years old. They didn't stop the erosion, they made it worse. The roots cracked the sewer drain caps diverting the sewage to the river instead of the holding pond, and, during our Spring ice flow, "slid" into the river taking the river bank they were supposed to stop from eroding, creating a worse-case scenario and the project was abandoned within 2 years.
I'm in my 70s and have seen the ravage these trees have done to my city. They are not nice trees to have. Our children were also allergic to the pollen caused by the seeds in Spring. If you've got seedlings now, pull them up as soon as you spot them. So now you might understand the reason why the trees are currently considered to be "invasive". The other reason is that once they invade our forests they take over whole acres of them and the areas are growing, cutting off valuable seedlings food and earth to grow and flourish.
I found these in my tomato and flower pots … I live in a second floor apartment 😂