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You can choose from 3 different colours: cherry red, pine green or antique gold, including a matching ribbon. We have excellent quality 20-30 cm tall, 2 year old starter plants on offer (not branched).Ĭhalk, Clay, Loam, Peat, Sand, Silt / Acidic, Neutral, AlkalineĪdd that personal touch with our bespoke gift wrapping service and choose from one of our luxurious but also natural looking wrapping papers.If planted into a pot, they can live on the patio or it can be formed into a bonsai. This plant can grow 50-80 cm a year, finally reaching 25-30m in height with a 6-8m spread but if pruned, they can be used as a high hedge or even a small tree in the garden. It will will thrive best in full sun and moist, deep, well drained soil, but it is drought tolerant. This population was only discovered in 1940, before this time, scientists believed the plant was extinct and was only known through fossil records. Dawn redwoods grow naturally in the remote province of Szechwan, China. The leaves turn to lovely bronze then brown colour in autumn. It is known to be a living fossil, endangered in the wild. With their cinnamon coloured, exfoliating bark and deciduous nature this plant can be a real pearl of any garden. Even the seedlings are very hardy and care-free. Dawn redwood trunks are remarkably straight and the tree grows in a tall, slender, pyramidal shape. Keep very well watered when first planted.Metasequoia glyptostroboides is an unusual, deciduous conifer tree, but can be kept as a shrub or hedge. Allowing soil to accumulate round the base of a tree can be fatal. This will help avoid the chance of cross contamination of disease.Īs with all woody plants, plant high, exposing as much of the taper at the base of the trunk as possible. When clipping several plants with the same tool, have a bucket containing a 5% bleach solution and swish your blades around for 30 seconds between plants to sterilise them.
It’s not known to grow in standing water and doesn’t seem to produce the famous ‘knees’ found on the Swamp Cypress but in stature it’s more like the mighty Coast Redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens)Ī translation : Meta sequoia means a bit like a Sequoia and glyptostrob-oides means a bit like (the -oides ending always means ‘like’) a Glypostrobus, the Chinese Swamp Cypress. It’s like a bigger, more slender version of the related Swamp Cypress ( Taxodium distichum) being deciduous with similar delicate foliage. As they’ve only been in cultivation in Britain for 70 years, who knows when it’ll stop? It’s a fine specimen in rude health but being on its own it looks lonely and I feel bad. It grew like a rocket so now – in 2020 – it must be 60ft tall. I planted it in 1985 because I wanted to see what it would do. Having said that, I have one in my garden. They love each other’s company and they look so bold and wonderful when grown together – so try a grove or two. If you want a collection of Latin names in your garden (an arboretum?) than plant one on its own but from a design point of view this (in my modest opinion) accomplishes nothing. Like all of these tall conical conifers, their use needs some thought. I’ve linked the Wollemi to another part of our website but not the Coelacanth as we don’t sell them. The Dawn Redwood has become one of the most famous of these prehistoric species that came back to life along with the Wollemi Pine ( Wollemia nobilis) and the Coelacanth. I say ‘not surprisingly’ because any species (be it plant or animal) that’s remained unchanged for many millions of years will have evolved many ways of dealing with both hell and high water. It was introduced into cultivation in 1949 and – not surprisingly – has proved entirely reliable, disease free, vigorous and robust. And then – in 1941 – it was discovered growing happily in Sichuan in Western China. It’s extraordinary to think that there was fossil evidence of this tree’s existence from the Mesozoic and – because no one had found it – an assumption that it had been extinct since then. One of a rare breed of plant that the palaeontologists knew existed before the botanists. Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood)