Grange Farm Arboretum | |
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Type | Arboretum |
Location | 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Sutton St James on the B1165 |
Coordinates | 52°44′43″N0°03′06″E / 52.745181°N 0.051736°E |
Area | 3 hectares (0.030 km2) |
Created | 1987 |
Operated by | Matthew Ellis |
Open | By appointment |
Website | http://www.arboreta.nl/grangefarm.htm |
The Grange Farm Arboretum is a small private arboretum comprising 3 hectares accommodating over 800 trees, mostly native and ornamental species or cultivars, notably oaks, ashes, walnuts and elms, growing on a calcareous loam. [1] [2]
The arboretum is located in the village of Sutton St James, Lincolnshire, England, and was founded by Matthew Ellis in 1987. The arboretum is open to visitors by appointment.
Ulmus changii, occasionally known as the Hangzhou elm, is a small deciduous tree found across much of China in forests at elevations of up to 1800 m. Owing to its increasing scarcity, U. changii was added to the Hainan Province Protected Plants List in 2006.
The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Viminalis Aurea', probably a "golden" form of Ulmus minor 'Viminalis', was raised before 1866 by Egide Rosseels of Louvain, who was known to have supplied 'Viminalis'.
The Japanese Elm cultivar Ulmus davidianavar.japonica 'Mitsui Centennial' is a cold-resistant selection raised at the Morden Experimental Station, Manitoba, Canada, in the 1970s.
The Chinese Elm cultivar Ulmus parvifolia 'Drake' was marketed by the Monrovia Nursery of Azusa, California from 1952 to 1953.
The Chinese Elm cultivar Ulmus parvifolia 'Hallelujah' is one of three American introductions made circa 1992 that were selected for their cold hardiness. 'Hallelujah' is known to have withstood -37 °C (-35 °F) in Missouri.
The Chinese Elm cultivar Ulmus parvifolia 'Geisha' is a dwarf variety, introduced c.1980.
The Siberian elm cultivar Ulmus pumila 'Dropmore' was grown from seed collected by F. L. Skinner, of Dropmore, Manitoba, in Harbin, China.
The European White Elm cultivar Ulmus laevis 'Ornata' was erroneously identified by Carrière as U. communis ornata in 1858. 'Ornata' was named by Carrière for the numerous and intensely green leaves which gave the trees 'a magnificent appearance'.
The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Reverti' is a University of Wisconsin–Madison selection, registered and named in Germany in 1993 by Conrad Appel, Darmstadt.
The Chinese Elm cultivar Ulmus parvifolia 'Garden City Clone' was raised in Kansas. The champion tree was 18 m tall in 1993; however, the name 'Garden City Clone' is not officially recognized.
The Siberian elm cultivar Ulmus pumila 'Dwarf Weeper' was discovered in a western Illinois garden and sold by the Arborvillage Nursery Holt, Missouri.
Ulmus ismaelis is a small tree discovered circa 1997 in southern Mexico by Ismael Calzada in riparian forest along the Mixteco River system in northeastern Oaxaca, where it grows among large boulders in the limestone canyons. The tree has since been found in Honduras and El Salvador. The tree is exceptional in its habitat: dry places, sometimes with <500 mm per annum precipitation, and comparatively low altitudes of 450–750 m.
Ulmus glaucescens var. glaucescens is a Chinese tree endemic to mountain slopes at elevations of 2000–2400 m in the provinces of Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Shanxi.
Ulmus parvifolia var. coreana, the Korean elm, is a variety of the Chinese elm Ulmus parvifolia, native to Korea.
The Purple-leafed Jersey or Guernsey ElmUlmus minor 'Purpurea' is largely confined to Australia.
Ulmus parvifolia f. lanceolata, the Chinese elm, is a rare form endemic to South Korea.
Ulmus×mesocarpaM. Kim & S. Lee is a natural hybrid elm which is a cross of Ulmus macrocarpa with Japanese elm Ulmus davidiana var. japonica discovered on Seoraksan near the city of Sokcho on the eastern coast of South Korea. The tree is endemic to the provinces of Gangwon-do, Injegun, Bukmyeon, Yongdaeri, and Baekdamsa.
The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Dehesa de la Villa' was cloned by root cuttings from a tree growing in the eponymous park within the Moncloa-Aravaca district of north-west Madrid, by researchers at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes, Universidad Politėcnica de Madrid in 1990.
The Ulmus pumila cultivar 'Aurescens' was introduced by Georg Dieck at the National Arboretum, Zöschen, Germany, circa 1885. Dieck grew the tree from seed collected in the Ili valley, Turkestan by the lawyer and amateur naturalist Vladislav E. Niedzwiecki while in exile there. Dieck originally named the tree U. pinnato-ramosaf.aurescens.
The Japanese Elm cultivar Ulmus davidianavar.japonica 'Validation' is a selection made by Kunso Kim and Bethany Brown of the Morton Arboretum released in 2011; propagation is by grafting onto Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila rootstocks.