The Conservation Foundation's Ulmus Londinium project aims to record exisiting elms within London, replant more, and raise awareness of their heritage.
The foundation has 750 elm saplings to give away during 2012 to Londoners that live in a place with Elm in their name. The giveaway aims to increase the capital's elm population and celebrates the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Foundation's own 30th anniversary.
The Foundation also hopes to create a comprehensive guide of surviving elms within the M25. According to the map no-one has so far spotted any elms at all in Nine Elms so if you know of any, you might add them to the National History Museum's Urban Tree Survey.
Dutch Elm Disease ravaged Britain during the early 1970s, leading to the death of most mature English elm within a decade.
We need 9 elm trees planted near Nine Elms station!
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