Two old Wentworth Elms, with girths over 3 metres (9.8 ft), believed to have been planted c.1909, stand in the gardens of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh (2016), on the main lawn to the east of the palace.
Two of the three specimens supplied to the RBGE by Späth in 1902, the taller is about 30 metres (98 ft) in height; the shorter was lightly pruned c.2015.
A third tree at Holyrood Palace was felled in 2008 due to Dutch Elm Disease and a ring count indicated an origin of approximately 1905.
Despite the dearth of textbook descriptions, the trees were confidently identified as 'Wentworthii Pendula' in a RBGE survey (2016), because their leaves and branchlets match old photographs of the type and because no other large-leaved weeping hybrid elm appears in the cultivar lists of the time.
Their lower branchlets 'routinely touch the ground' and are kept trimmed, as was the case with the 'Wentworthii Pendula' at the RBGE.
The origin of this specimen, a much younger tree acquired in 1974 but killed by DED in 1996, is recorded only as 'Wiseman', possibly the Wiseman Nursery at Elgin, Moray.
Two old Wentworth Elms, with girths over 3 metres (9.8 ft), believed to have been planted c.1909, stand in the gardens of Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh (2016), on the main lawn to the east of the palace. Two of the three specimens supplied to the RBGE by Späth in 1902, the taller is about 30 metres (98 ft) in height; the shorter was lightly pruned c.2015. A third tree at Holyrood Palace was felled in 2008 due to Dutch Elm Disease and a ring count indicated an origin of approximately 1905. Despite the dearth of textbook descriptions, the trees were confidently identified as 'Wentworthii Pendula' in a RBGE survey (2016), because their leaves and branchlets match old photographs of the type and because no other large-leaved weeping hybrid elm appears in the cultivar lists of the time. Their lower branchlets 'routinely touch the ground' and are kept trimmed, as was the case with the 'Wentworthii Pendula' at the RBGE. The origin of this specimen, a much younger tree acquired in 1974 but killed by DED in 1996, is recorded only as 'Wiseman', possibly the Wiseman Nursery at Elgin, Moray.
Ulmus × hollandica 'Wentworthii Pendula'