Re: Sequioa sempervirens 'Soquel'

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Carol Joynson
<peabodys_gardener@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> However, there's a very good chance that the nursery is right on this
> particular plant.  Ben is looking to buy a Bay Area and points north native
> in Southern California, where it is going to be well out of its comfort
> range and, even well watered, will be generally unhappy about the lack of
> fog and cool weather.  I've seen them here in the L.A. area, and they never
> do seem to get very tall...

On dry ridges and hillsides even within range (I'm talking Monterey
County here), they tend to be rather short. As you head to the
southern end of their territory, they get increasingly restricted to
valleys and gullies and areas where they can get some year round
moisture. The really tall ones grow with ample year round moisture and
usually near a creek (at least as far as I've seen down in Big Sur.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Deborah Lindsay <corvidae2001@yahoo.com>
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:56:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Sequioa sempervirens 'Soquel'
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> Ben-
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> It definitely gets taller than 50 ft in the SF Bay
> Area. Not to offend anyone but In my experience many
> nursery labels underestimate the eventual size of
> plants they sell. Most people want to believe that
> trees in particular will fit in their gardens and I
> think that some nurseries underestimate deliberately
> in order to make a sale. But then maybe I'm just a
> jaded and cynical gardener.
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> Deborah Lindsay
> Oakland
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> --- Ben Wiswall <benwiswall@pacbell.net> wrote:
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> > I was just at browsing today at a Boething Treeland
> > Nursery, a very good nursery in Woodland Hills here
> > in
> > Los Angeles, also up in the Bay Area somewhere.
> > Among
> > the Coast Redwood cultivars, the sign for the
> > cultivar
> > 'Soquel' mentioned it rarely exceeded fifty feet in
> > gardens.  Can anyone corroborate or contradict this?
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