Re: Redwoods, etc. (resend)

(The format of my previous send of this message was
pretty sub-optimal, I hope this is easier to read. - k.h.)


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
year-round 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 more humid 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
(or phylloids, or whatever. for the acutely Botanic amongst us)
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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