Crow's Nest: Now blooming

The flowers are subtle: they're small and high in the trees, but American elm (Ulmus americana) is now in flower at the Crow's Nest. Many of our elms have died during drought years but you can still find some in the floodplain woods and hedgerows. Across North America large specimens of this once-common tree are now very rare due to Dutch elm disease, a fungal disease spread by the elm bark beetle.