Young leaves of elm in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, in late April
The 100 disease-resistant elms, Ulmus ‘New Horizon’, in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, are growing greener as spring moves on towards summer and the leaves open out to their full extent.
They are rather delicate leaves at the moment but I expect they will later harden off and turn to a darker colour.
This monthly tree-following visit was on April 28, during a lengthy dry spell with quite cold north-easterly winds.
Approaching the avenue of elms
Definitely green now
Elm leaves
A single tree
You can still see the green fruits among the leaves – I wonder when they will turn pale and dry and disperse
Looking along the avenue
A jackdaw (Corvus monedula) nearby
The avenue turns a corner
A carrion crow (Corvus corone) in the branches of one of the elms
A closer look
A dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Green leaves against the bark
Lichen seems to love the elm bark
Approaching Blackweir Bridge
I hadn’t noticed before how dry the area is around the base of the trees…
…the grass is poor and yellow here
Where there are dogs there’s poo – although most people do the right thing and take it home
The last elm before Blackweir Bridge
Looking back over Blackweir towards Pontcanna Fields and the avenue of elms
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The Squirrelbasket 
I love the green of the leaves this time of year. Have to agree about the dry earth Pat … we need rain!
And as I speak the rain is falling here and it feels like thunder coming…
All the best đŸ™‚
It’s sunny and HOT here today (although I think rain coming later …)
They are beautiful! And looking surprisingly dainty at this point: the green of the leaves and the fruit… I love your photo of the lichen đŸ™‚
I must admit I don’t look forward to the leaves hardening off, as I prefer them when they are fresh and soft.
And of course I love lichen…
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Fresh elm fruits are nice to eat. Sadly we don’t have elms where I live now, so no elm fruits for me…
I must try some – if I can reach, as they are a little bit high in the trees!
I wonder what the distribution of elms is, in terms of latitude?
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Such rich greens! We rarely see them in Wyoming, except where there’s well-developed streamside vegetation.
Yes, we are very lucky – it stays green and lush here, even though we have had a dry Spring (although there’s refreshing rain this weekend).
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they do have a nice spring green freshness about them, all the more noticable with a group like this, the single tree has a very nice shape, almost perfect and I like the close up of the Crow, I’m surprised the north easterlies penetrated so far down the UK, nice to know it’s not just us up here though they are cold! oh, nearly forgot, when I was in Inverness 3 weeks ago I saw Elms and Elm fruits, thank you, I would not have known what they were before reading your last post, Frances
I’m pleased I’ve got people “thinking elm”!
When we get north easterlies here I consider it to be a “wrong ‘un”, a bit like the Mistral in the south of France, as we are used to south westerlies. The trees have their leaves all blowing the wrong way and I always feel irritable, too…
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