Q: I had to take down a big oak and I want to replace it. A friend mentioned Chinese elm. What are your thoughts? Anne Stanley, email A: Chinese elm, Ulmus parvifolia, also known as lacebark elm, is ...

After Dutch elm disease arrived on a log shipment from Europe in the 1930s and began systematically wiping out our American elms, many of us marked elms off our lists of trees to consider for ...