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| Saw this big one at Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia today:
Here's a picture with me to give a sense of scale.
There was another one of similar size, but not quite as striking. I imagine these were among the first seed planted specimens in this country. Longwood gardens is a great place, I'd recommend it to any tree lover. Alex |
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Sun, Oct 9, 11 at 22:14
| Nice pic of an impressive tree and a good idea to use yourself for scale. Those ARE listed as 1948 trees so they are tied for the oldest in the country. Impressive. If you have not read it the Skidmore ametasequoia database is pretty well organized. Longmore apparently has a pretty impressive collection. I am jealous of you all out east! My local MOBOT has a pretty impressive collection but you all have soo many soo close. |
Here is a link that might be useful: skidmore metasequoia database
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- Posted by alexander3 6 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 10, 11 at 15:05
| Interesting database, thanks for the link. It says there are 26 dawn redwoods at Longmore....I only saw two. I didn't exhaustively tour the grounds, but the path where I found them was described as having dawn redwoods. Hard to imagine I missed 24 more on that same path, I wonder where the others were? Alex |
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| There are a couple of really big ones up at the NJ Botanical gardens in Ringwood too. I see a few planted on local suburban streets but lacking those low side branches--assume they were removed. Is this tree really suitable for a suburban street?--They look fine but when I see pics of big ones at botanic gardens, I wonder. P.S. It's Longwood Gardens--not Longmore. |
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Tue, Oct 11, 11 at 2:45
| Njoasis, dawn redwood grows fast and can get a massive trunk if the lower limbs are left on. Prune them up and the tree seems very cypress like and can be somewhat formal. The "footprint" of a dawn redwood should fit wherever folks have a sweetgum or pinoak planted. The below pics are from another member....was it Dan or Ken.....
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| Thanks, Toronado. I had some concern about the ones I planted in my rear yard, but as you say, they seem manageable if some pruning is done. I have one Bald cypress and a half dozen Dawn Reds. I would have planted more Cypress but they need more sun and the Dawns are in a fairly shaded area. Deer chew off some of the lower growth anyway from the Dawn Reds. I'd be hard pressed to select my favorite from these two species! |
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| There is an equally large specimen at the Sarah P. Duke botanical gardens in Durham. It was one of the first seedlings collected by the Arnold Arboretum. The tree was planted in 1949. They now protect it with fencing because of repeated foot traffic under the tree compacting the soil. Read along the right side of this link. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Dawn Redwood Duke
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| Here's the pic I was trying to find earlier. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pic of Duke Dawn Redwood
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Fri, Oct 14, 11 at 19:41
| Nice pic jq. That skidmore site never seems to end. |
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