Dan

Please remind us where you live and where you normally keep the tree.

Northern england, and i keep the tree outside in a sunny spot

A couple of ideas.

If Elms are over watered they will drop leaves and keep trying to grow
new ones.

If you let it dry out some, it begins to heal itself.

I think this is what happened to your Elm.

You might be right, but i didnt think i had over watered, i gave it water
about every 3 days or so.

Some Chinese Elms here in warm Florida never really lose all their
leave.

If you have a sunny location indoors, with good air circulation, you
can
over winter your tree there and then maybe next season (Fall 2006) you
can
allow a normal dormant period.

But, please don't over water.


So i keep it indoors because its started a new growing cycle and wont go
dormant for winter? It seems to have been in a growing period for a very
long time (since March or so) Is there any way i could force it into
dormancy?


thanks for your help

dan