21/01/2026
We’ve just bought four logs of Elm from Brucklay Estate in Aberdeenshire.
These might be some of the very last Aberdeenshire Elm logs we will ever work with.
In Brucklay Estate, there are more than 1000 mature Elm trees. They are all dead or dying.
Dutch Elm Disease has devastated the entire population of local trees and there’s virtually no healthy Elms left.
These ones are also infected but are still showing a lovely rich colour inside so we’re going to mill them into boards later this month.
Elm is such a beautiful timber – full of deep colours and swirling grain patterns.
Wytch Elms are also special and unique trees – just like the characterful timber under their bark.
They’re such a distinctive part of the farmland of rural Aberdeenshire; growing for centuries in twisted and gnarled shapes along the edges of fields and roads.
We’re looking forward to seeing the beautiful timber hidden inside these logs and giving the wood a second life as fine furniture.
……but we’ll be working with heavy hearts.
Forestry work carried out by the very distinguished John Cooper of Aye Trees.
