Re: Redwoods, etc.

Mr. Yagli:

Sequoia sempervirens, the coast redwood, is native to foggy coastal
rainforests
west and northwest of my current location. They need perfect drainage and
perhaps 2m of
fresh water a year, preferably fog captured by its dense branch structure.
They won't stand temperatures below about 20F or so. Its evergreen leaves
bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Taxodium.

The Sequoiadendron giganteum, the giant redwood, is native to mid-elevation
mountains
due east of here. It can stand temperatures below -10 F, quite dry summers,
and in fact
suffers from non-fatal fungal infections in the climate here in the Santa
Clara valley (UC Zones 15,16) It's probably a better choice than Coast
Redwood for a typical mediterranean climate. Its leaves are very similar to
Cupressus or a small-leaved Juniperus.

So we're not too sure which 'sequoia' you have and both types present some
difficulties
in mostly any garden setting.

For very similar effects in much more robust plants try a Taxodium or
Metasequoia
or Callitris, or even Juniperus. I've got one Juniperus deppeana sapling in
a can, I can
hardly wait till it reaches its maximum height of 17m or so.  <8)  
Next year, I'm going to be trying Patagonian Cypress, the latin name of
which I can't
remember right now, I'll let everybody know how that goes. (In 3000 years
or so...)

Karl.


At 06:43 AM 4/25/99 +0300, Zeki Yagli wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Few times ago I engaged a thread on redwoods not growing enough high
>here in
>Turkey and I got a lot of useful information from many of list members.
>This time this a friend which has a problem. He has already a 4m high
>sequoia
>completely dried back and the second one's leafs are browning, the bark
>is
>cracked and sap and slime ooze out.
>My friend say that the sequoia which has died had the same symptoms. And
>he is
>very sad with the idea of loosing he second redwood.
>
>Does somebody has an opinion to help identify the problem and any
>suggestion of
>an urgent remedy?
>
>Thank you all.
>
>Regards.
>
>Zeki Yagli
>Istanbul-Turkey
>
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