Dear Friends,
Many thanks to each of you for providing foster care to American elm Ulmus americana seedlings. We have 2 more years to tend the seedlings before they will be placed in permanent homes throughout the Greater New Haven area.
After a long and frigid winter, we have wide-ranging reports that the seedlings' buds are swelling and preparing to leaf out for the spring. We hope that your charges are behaving in a like manner! Please check them out and keep them appropriately hydrated over the spring, summer and fall months. You can leave the seedlings in their sunken pots for the duration of your tenure.
Please send me photographs of your seedlings so that we can document their progress. And, feel free to pass along growing tips so that we can learn from each other.
We appreciate the wonderful publicity that Cheshire Academy has given to the project. Stories about the elms and their caretakers appeared in both the Magazine of Cheshire Academy and the Cheshire Herald. The project has also been covered by the New Haven Independent, the New Haven Register, the Faith Middleton Show, the Garden Club of American Bulletin and the New Journal at Yale University. Please send me your articles, too!
Please let Rosita Murphy (rositamurphy@gmail.com) or me know if you have any questions or concerns. We will be in touch periodically, and trust that you share in our excitement about this important effort to repopulate "The Elm City" with American elms.
Happy spring!
Debbie Edwards
Garden Club of New Haven
2013 Tree Project Committee Chairman
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