The Biggest Trees in the World: Growing Redwoods in the UK!
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- The Giant Sequoia and the Coastal Redwood are two of the most impressive trees on the planet - but you don't have to travel all the way to California to see them! Since the mid 1800s they've been growing right here in the UK.
So cool that you donated a sequoia to the university. That must feel really satisfying. Great, informative video (as always). Cheers, George.
Thanks Michael!
I'm a native Californian who has grown Sequoia Semipervans, and I approve of this message.
Absolutely love sequoia trees and their history, but didn’t realise until recently there were some growing in the UK. I went to go visit some in Westonbirt Arboretum and it was very exciting. Really cool video, so amazing you’ve grown a few!
I love your enthusiasm for these magnificent giants. I visited lots of them in California and was amazed by their size. Thanks for posting. Good luck with your future special tree.
Thanks Mervyn! Loved seeing them on my last trip to CA too!
Great stuff! Saw them out in California a couple years ago but didn't know we had any in the UK.
Thanks Tom, glad you got to see them out in CA! I did too a couple of years ago - and was meant to go back last summer but obviously that trip got cancelled. Hopefully I'll get to go again at some point
I’ve started my own micro evergreen forest on the outskirts of London Douglas firs, coast & giant redwoods, cedars of Lebanon & atlas I’m sure someone will love it in the future as much as I do now planning it and watching them grow.
That sounds great Jim! Is it publicly accessible?
@@GeorgeMaier Sadly not, but they're all still only a few years old, except the sequoiadendron which i grew from seed in 2010. I had many failures, plus muntjac's devastated my first trees i planted out back in 2014. Its growth has skyrocketed in the last year, i put it down to this years wet summer, but still only peaks at around 8/9 ft tall. I have followed Ron@Redwoodworld for years so i'm glad to see someone else like yourself going into such depth. Have you watched the link on Ron's site regarding the Giant Redwoods? (TED talk) I highly recommend.
The Redwood types of trees is one of the tallest trees of the world, its good to have them grown in many parts of the world, from its numerous source at California, wherein a plantation of these types are also evident being preserved. Keep going U.K and U.S in growing these types of trees, preservation of GDP growth in numerous forms. SMEs..
I honestly didn't know we had ANY of those in the UK.
Exactly! I think so many people are in the same boat - because they aren’t so giant yet, they tend to not stand out that much. If you check out the “locations and photos” page on the website RedwoodWorld.co.uk you can probably find some near your end. If you do find one, try to feel the bark. As they mature their bark becomes soft and fibrous and is quite different to how most trees feel - to the extent you can even punch it without hurting your hand, it just feels like punching a pillow (not that I necessarily recommend punching trees). The soft bark is part of their fire defence, it isn’t developed on all of them in the UK yet, but it’s really interesting to experience if you do find one with it.
And the world is planting more and more of these redwood groves. Imagine the world absolutely packed with these trees (except Antarctica)
What a majestic and incredible tree. In Australia, we have some that are of a similar age. They do exceptional in the small pockets of areas that are cooler and have more rainfall. I have germinated some myself and are third generation 'Australian' giant sequoias (if you can call it that haha).Good on you. It's a great feeling germinating a seed, nurturing it and planting it somewhere, where it can grow and out live many generations and where your grandchildren's children can play under it and enjoy it.
Happy to see you back on youtube :). This was really nice and informative to hear.
Thanks Roope, glad you liked it!
If you ever have the chance you should defiantly travel to the Mariposa grove in California to see some true giants.
So pleased to see the notification that you had posted a video George! Didn’t disappoint either, great content! It’s been far too long :)
Thank you! It certainly has been a while since my last video in this series. But I am planning to make more - so hopefully it won't be such a big gap until the next one!
For Americans: 53m = 159ft
Sounds like a pretty big tree to me.
My favourite trees, been propagating both varieties recently very excited to get them in the ground over the next year or so.
Nice video mate! these trees have always fascinated me
When I visited the Sequoias and Redwoods, you could buy little ones to take home and plant, Keep your grand children in mind, as they might have a giant like this in your back yard.
Fantastic video.
Very informative!
I have a Giant Sequoia growing on my balcony. You didn't know there was a dwarf variety did you? I actually have four other redwoods elsewhere, two dawn redwoods (they are decidous) and once Giant Sequoia (non dwarf) and a Coastal Redwood, as well as various spruces, a monkey puzzle, a deodar, a cedar of lebanon, a scots pine, several douglas firs and oh the list goes on.
Wow so cool
I saw general Sherman in person a few years ago
I'm attempting my second growth of a sequioa sapling . It's already starting to brown . I used a sandy, clay soil and grit for drainage throughout . I hope it manages to survive
How old is the sapling? I’ve had reasonable luck using normal compost with a bit of vermiculite. I have had them die on me due to under watering (when I went on holiday) or physical damage of some sort in the past, but apart from that I’ve been quite lucky
@@GeorgeMaier not sure on the age but it's a small sapling about 10 inches in height. Ordered it online, had enormous roots considering the size and they were well wrapped around the pot it came in . I think maybe they had choked
Ah yes that’s a possibility. I’ve always grown mine directly from seed, so I’m not too experienced around buying saplings. If you live in the UK and wanted to try growing from seed, Chiltern Seeds is a good supplier - they’re the ones I use.
Do seed sellers somehow pick good seeds? I've recently speed about 20 and have 6 seedlings sprouting up! I didn't realise their germination rate was so low!
What are your thoughts on the idea that a lot of the older UK ones have stopped or dramatically slowed growing? I heard that they may never reach the height of the US ones.
It’s normal for their height growth to slow dramatically after the first 100-200 years, if I’m not mistaken? We already have some in the UK over 50 meters tall, which is more than half the hight of the tallest in the world which are generally 1-3 thousand years old. In all honesty, I don’t think it matters so much if they never grow as big as in their natural habitat either - they’re still rather magnificent even at their current scale in the UK. There’s also concerns with climate change that their native habitat may become less hospitable to their growth. All of which is to say, I don’t have any specific concerns about their growth in the UK
i love redwoods , i am trying to make small forrest with giant sequoia and coastal redwood in few weeks i will start to cut down pines and start planting saplings ( i live in Poland and use seeds from US)
You should probably converse with a botanist before you start. Just to make sure that the two trees can adapt and co-exist together.
@@tommoore2012 i will just try and if it will not work ..... well i will try another time with just giant sequoia (oh and some redwood's and sequoias grow in poland )
They grow well together in quite a variety of locations now. Kew Gardens redwood “forest”, for example, has had some great successes growing them together. Obviously neither is in their truly ideal location, but they are relatively resilient species.
You need better colour grading. Very grey video. However, very informative. I loved it.
I purposefully don't colour grade and of my videos, it's a running thing. Because I turn around a video from planning to posting online in less than a day - it's a fun little hobby for me, and colour grading takes that fun away (especially as I am colour blind so always mess it up).
Really impressive! But are you sure about the Coastal Redwoods? That species has adapted to using the fog everyday given off by the pacific in it’s native habitat for water. It’s where the majority of them get their needed water by absorbing the fog in their leaves and trunks. Do you foresee any potential problems or is there regular daily fog in the UK?
They have grown reasonably well throughout the UK for decades, without any obvious problems. While fog helps them grow tall in their native habitat, it doesn’t appear to be a requirement for their growth and general well-being.
Wow. I bought 20 seeds and 2 grew and I thought I was doing badly....I guess not
If you are buying seeds they will usually be imported from old growth redwoods with high fertility rates. 2 in 20 would be within the expected range of germinations for bought seeds. Once you get the hang of it you will likely get closer to 20-30% success with bought seeds, sometimes more depending on how they have been filtered by the supplier. The low rates I was talking about in this video refer to seeds collected from trees in the UK, where the giant redwoods trees are no where near as fertile as the old growth, and 1% germination would be considered good.
Argh! That reconstructed one in the 1850's was a bit creepy! Poor tree.
Yes! On the one hand it must have been quite an amazing display for Londoners who had never seen a tree that large before, but certainly not nice that they had to kill a rare giant redwood to make it happen!
I never saw a more confusing naming of anything. You see Redwood, giant redwood, sequoia and giant sequoia. It seems that there is really redwood and sequoia and they are different. Adding giant to the beginning seems to do nothing but confuse things. So we have sequoia, also called giant sequoia and redwood, also called giant redwood. They are different trees. Both are the 2 biggest trees on earth. This video explains the size part very well but I think confuses the naming.
I’ve had some extensive discussions about the naming of these trees before. Essentially, different cultures/academic stands developed their own naming systems for them, and it has ended up a bit of a mess. In the US, Redwood and Sequoia are the common names, but in the UK, Coastal Redwood and Giant Redwood are used very frequently to name the two species. Even their botanical names are somewhat confusing: sequoia (coastal) and sequioadendron (sequoia/giant redwood), but sequioadendron literally translates as “sequoia tree”. So sequoia and sequioadendron are essentially the same thing linguistically, despite being using to distinguish the species. if we dig deeper into the botanical names: sequioadendron gigantium (translating as giant sequoia tree) and sequoia sempervirens (ever green/growing sequoia) don’t have much botanical meaning behind them, both species could be described as giant, and both are evergreen. My approach has always been to respect the various naming systems and people’s different approaches, rather than imposing one “correct” naming system. The names for these trees are confusing because of the complex human history behind them, and I think that is, by itself, really interesting.
out of habitat conservation.
Hi can I have one plant please