Who grows Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm wholesale in Australia?

5 wholesale growers list Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria and Queensland. The growers are named on this page.

What pot sizes does Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm come in?

Growers on HortOS list Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm in 400mm and 100L.

What does Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm cost wholesale?

The median trade price in a 400 mm pot is $112.00 ex GST, across 4 growers who price it. Prices by pot size and state are on its trade price page.

How do I order Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm from these growers?

HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.

How big does Burnley Select Chinese elm grow?

Growers give 9 to 12 m tall and 6 to 7 m wide: one sheet 9 m by 7 m, another 12 m by 6 m.

Where does Burnley Select come from?

By a grower's sheet, it was grown from the seed of a mature elm that stood at Burnley College in Melbourne. No government or botanic garden reference read gives its history.

Is Burnley Select upright or weeping?

The growers' accounts differ. One sheet gives a pendulous form, wider than other Chinese elms while young; another describes a budded, upright tree whose branches it calls well attached.

Is Burnley Select drought tolerant?

One grower's sheet calls it frost resistant but drought tender, and prefers a humus-rich soil. No other reference read rates its drought tolerance.

Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm

Chinese Elm

5 growers · 2 sizes · from $95.00 ex GST

Burnley Select is a named form of Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia 'Burnley Select') which, by a grower's sheet, was raised from the seed of a mature elm that stood at Burnley College in Melbourne. Growers give it as 9 to 12 m tall and 6 to 7 m wide and semi-deciduous, with glossy leaves and flaking bark: mottled brown, orange, green and grey by one sheet, yellow, grey and brown by the other.

Illustration of Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia): a twig with small, alternate, leathery, glossy dark green leaves, elliptic to ovate with an uneven base, a serrated edge and an acute tip, paler beneath — Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia), a leafy twig

Type: Deciduous tree
Height: 9 m to 12 m
Spread: 6 m to 7 m
Flowers: Reddish green, late summer to autumn by most references; the North Carolina toolbox gives late spring to autumn
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Frost: Frost resistant by one grower's sheet; medium frost tolerance by another grower's page
In Australia: Naturalised

Size	Grower	Location	PricePrice ex GST
400mm	Blackall Range Nurseries400mm	Dulong, QLD	$125.00
400mm	Peninsula Advanced Trees400mm	Mornington, VIC	$95.00
400mm	Urban Tree Growers400mm	VIC	$99.00
100L	Urban Tree Growers100L	VIC	$220.00
100L	Metropolitan Tree Growers Pty Ltd100L	Silvan, VIC	$245.00
400mm	Dream-Time Wholesale Nursery400mm	VIC	$145.00

Growing burnley Select Chinese elm

Form. The two growers' accounts differ. One sheet gives a pendulous form 9 m tall and 7 m wide, wider than other Chinese elms while it is young; the other describes a budded, upright tree 12 m tall and 6 m wide whose branches, it says, are well attached. Ask the grower which form it lists.

Soil, water and cold. One sheet prefers a humus-rich soil and calls the tree frost resistant but drought tender; the other asks for a well-drained, well-worked soil in full sun, says it suits most soil conditions and rates its frost tolerance medium. The drought note is the difference to weigh: Wyndham City Council's sheet for the species rates Chinese elm's drought tolerance high.

Leaves. Both growers describe glossy green leaves, small by one account; one says they turn yellow and red in autumn before falling, the other that they turn yellow and hang on the tree until late winter.

Planting. The upright form is budded, by its grower's page, which asks for the bud union to sit above soil level at planting.

Using burnley Select Chinese elm

Growers sell it for shade, as a background tree or a screen, and for larger gardens, parks and streets; one sheet tags it for avenues, group planting and specimen use. None of the government or botanic garden references read holds an entry for Burnley Select, so what is set out here comes from two growers' sheets. The straight species has its own page under Chinese elm, and Todd and Murray's Form are two of the other named selections with pages.

What to check before you buy

Burnley Select is listed under its own name, apart from the straight Chinese elm. The growers describing it disagree on its form, so ask whether the trees a grower lists are upright or pendulous and confirm the size that grower gives. Note too that one sheet calls it drought tender. The HortOS guide to nursery pot sizes sets out the container ladder from tube to 400 litres. Stock moving between states travels under the state and territory biosecurity rules.

Victoria's Advisory list of environmental weeds (2022), a non-statutory advisory list, classes it as casual or ruderal in Victoria and rates it lower risk. (Advisory list of environmental weeds in Victoria 2022 (Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria))

Used forshade street and avenue specimen

Prices are set by each grower and shown ex GST. Availability is confirmed by the grower at order.

Common questions

Who grows Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm wholesale in Australia?: 5 wholesale growers list Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria and Queensland. The growers are named on this page.
What pot sizes does Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm come in?: Growers on HortOS list Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm in 400mm and 100L.
What does Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm cost wholesale?: The median trade price in a 400 mm pot is $112.00 ex GST, across 4 growers who price it. Prices by pot size and state are on its trade price page.
How do I order Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select Chinese Elm from these growers?: HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.
How big does Burnley Select Chinese elm grow?: Growers give 9 to 12 m tall and 6 to 7 m wide: one sheet 9 m by 7 m, another 12 m by 6 m.
Where does Burnley Select come from?: By a grower's sheet, it was grown from the seed of a mature elm that stood at Burnley College in Melbourne. No government or botanic garden reference read gives its history.
Is Burnley Select upright or weeping?: The growers' accounts differ. One sheet gives a pendulous form, wider than other Chinese elms while young; another describes a budded, upright tree whose branches it calls well attached.
Is Burnley Select drought tolerant?: One grower's sheet calls it frost resistant but drought tender, and prefers a humus-rich soil. No other reference read rates its drought tolerance.
Is Burnley Select deciduous?: Both growers call it semi-deciduous. One says the glossy leaves turn yellow and red in autumn before falling; the other that they turn yellow and hold on the tree until late winter.

Sources

GBIF species match API (the species name and family)
A tree grower's fact sheet (Speciality Trees, Victoria): Ulmus parvifolia 'Burnley Select' (the grower's own description)
A wholesale grower's product page (JFT Nurseries, Victoria): Ulmus parvifolia Burnley Select (the grower's own description)
North Carolina State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox: the species' leaf (simple, alternate, serrate)
Wyndham City Council (Victoria), street tree species sheet: Ulmus parvifolia, Chinese Elm (the species' drought rating, for the comparison; saved under ulmus-parvifolia-burnley-select-chinese-elm)
The HortOS catalogue (the name growers list it under) and guides (nursery-pot-sizes)

The growers, sizes and prices above are live and change as lists arrive. Cite this page: HortOS, Burnley Select Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia 'Burnley Select'), https://au.hortosapp.com/plants/ulmus-parvifolia-burnley-select-chinese-elm.

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