Trees have been planted in memory of a man who fought to save the native elm trees in the district.
Family and colleagues of Melvyne Crow, a former landscape and countryside manager for Braintree Council, turned out to watch the two native disease resistant elms in Halstead Public Gardens today.
Mr Crow managed to cultivate 50 elms from cuttings he took during the Dutch elms disease crisis in the 1960s.
He also worked with he Forestry Commission and timber industry experts to try to halt the spread of the disease which wiped out 25 million trees.
Mr Crow played a key role in the development of the Colne Valley Conservation Project.
Mr Crow, of Church Street, Bocking died on August last year, aged 65, following complications connected with kidney problems.
An English elm at John Ray Wood, in Braintree, was planted in Melvyne’s memory last year.
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