By Dave Green
A Sheffield family have won their appeal to the city council to protect a Dawn Redwood planted 40 years ago by their grandad. A tree preservation order was granted by Sheffield City Council’s planning committee at their August meeting for a dawn redwood tree growing in a back garden in Sandygate Park, Crosspool. Read more […]
By Dave Green
Our latest Batch of Giant Redwoods has been repotted and are rooting well. This batch was a test for the survivability rates of seeds sown together in a tray vs seeds sown individually in cells. Will the additional bare root transplant affect survivability rates? Seeds were sown in our general trays and repotted into individual […]
By Dave Green
The world’s tallest living tree, a 380-foot-tall Redwood named Hyperion, is now off-limits to visitors. Eager tourists who attempt to seek it out anyway could face fines of $5,000 or up to six months in jail. Read the full article here -> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-tallest-tree-is-officially-off-limits-180980509/
By Dave Green
Here at Redwood Trees, we’ve successfully germinated another 350 Giant Redwoods With each batch we are gradually getting a better germination rate, this batch was 70%. Just recently potted up into 9cm pots, they will be ready for sale in Autumn.
By Dave Green
A new Home Bargains store in Wimbledon has been told it cannot cut down three mature trees including a Dawn Redwood on the site of its new home. Thankfully after unsuccessfully arguing that Tree Preservation Order wasn’t necessary the council kept the TPO. Organisations lobby local government all the time to argue that TPOs need […]
By Dave Green
California State Parks, Tolowa Dee-Ni’ Nation, Save the Redwoods League, Redwood Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service have recently completed the Mill Creek Trail and a new boardwalk through the famed grove in California, USA. Read the full article → https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/38664-grove-of-titans-trail-project-completed-providing-access-to-some-of-the-world-s-largest-and-oldest-redwood-trees-in-california There is also an excellent YouTube video → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sog2FWTRes4
By Dave Green
Until August 2006, it was believed that the tallest tree in the world was The Stratosphere Giant, a Californian redwood measuring 112.5 meters. As of today, the tallest tree in the world is Hyperion, another gigantic coast redwood tree Sequoia sempervirens. Hyperion was discovered by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor at the end of […]
By Dave Green
An unlucky Redwood in Oregon, US took a direct lightning strike recently causing catastrophic damage to the 10 – 12ft diameter tree. Continue reading here or here.
By Dave Green
Here’s an short excellent video showing both the good and bad of the post-fire Armstrong Woods, California which preserves stately and magnificent Sequoia sempervirens Watch on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyH_gQTEEzY
By Dave Green
O’Neil, who works for California State Parks, soon realized that redwoods that were damaged or stressed by the Walbridge fire 18 months earlier were releasing millions of seeds. It was a bumper crop of new life produced in the cones that erupted after the fire and matured over the previous year. Now, three months later, […]
