Ulmus Minor Subsp. Sarniensis - Cultivars

Cultivars

• Dicksonii, ?Microphylla Pendula, Purpurea

'Dicksonii', commonly known as Dickson's Golden Elm, is a yellow-leaved form of the Guernsey Elm raised in Chester in 1900 by Dickson's Nursery, which marketed it as the 'Golden Cornish Elm'. Slower-growing than the type and described as "an attractive tree" with leaves "a fine yellow colour, said to last till autumn", 'Dicksonii' was granted the Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1969. Among the rare survivors are two specimens in Peasholm Park, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, re-discovered in 1994 during a National Tree Register audit of the trees in Peasholm Glen. The horticulturalist Christopher Lloyd used Dickson's Golden Elm in his celebrated long herbaceous borders at Great Dixter Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex.