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As quite a few of you know, i am not very experienced at growing things, as i have only about a year and a bit of experience, but i do know a fair bit about this wonderful art.

This question is targeted mainly at bonsai-ers growing chinese elms. I have one that is nothing special but does worry me at fall.
You see, i have a rather tricky situation here. Before i was born, the previous owner of my flat chipped off the seal which protects the windows edge which is attached to the window sill. This means that the cool air and breeze gets into my windowsill changing the environment to a more cooler and humid environment than the rest of the flat. This creates a more outside environment, but not the completely same as the outside. So, i am worried as the leaves are falling off/yellowing, but most of them are doing well. I am wondering whether it is just being semi evergreen, deciduous or there is something wrong like a pest (cant see any though luckily).

Last year, half of the leaves fell off and regrew in spring and thrived in spring and summer. Just wondering if you have any thoughts on this.

Thank you

The Chinese Elm is a deciduous species, however what mine tends to do s it keeps it's leaves all winter until the new buds are about to drop. So it sounds as if your are fine, they will lose leaves and I would keep it out of cold draughts as that will not do any good. Just keep watering as needed and give as much light as possible and it should be ok.

Yes, they don't follow the usual deciduous tree cycle, I have two outdoors which are in full leaf, another seven in the greenhouse (cuttings from last year) one of which has dropped all it's leaves and put out new ones, the remainder are dropping the few leaves from time to time over the last month. Just what they do.

Dave

Hi, thank you. There is just one thing that bothers me. Ya know when you see a tree anywhere, when it is deciduous, all the leaves mainly fall off at the same time. My elm is losing it's leaves almost like 2 each day. Last winter it did the same thing. As you have seen your elms in fall, just wanted to adress the little thing that was bugging me.

Thanks