Noticed my elm tree finally bounced back after 3 years of Dutch elm disease treatment

I had a big elm in my front yard that looked totally dead by 2021, but I kept up with the injections every spring. This summer it actually has a full canopy again, not just little tufts. Has anyone else seen treatments actually work on older trees around Edmonton?

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the_fiona27d ago

Did you have to prune it heavily first or did the injections do all the work on their own?

tara_mitchell27d ago

Followed what the nursery told us and did a pretty hard prune first, probably took off a third of the canopy. The injections helped the tree push out new growth where we wanted it, but without that initial cutback I think it would have just looked messy. What kind of timeline did you see with yours, @the_fiona?