Return of the redwood to northern michigan

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Return of the redwood to northern michigan

Post by dukeofdoom » Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:35 am

How likely are the trees to survive? Michigan is only as warm as 6b.

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Post by seedscanada » Fri Nov 20, 2015 3:11 pm

A Metasequoia in 6b Michigan? No issues!
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Post by dukeofdoom » Sat Nov 21, 2015 2:09 pm

I was thinking coastal redwoods. I've seen the deciduous ones around town. There are quite a few of them, and they seem to do great. Still would be amazing if someone actually planted a forest of them by the Great Lakes. Maybe it exists already ...

I know from living in out west, that the really large coastal redwoods need fog to take in moisture. Great Lakes area probably doesn't have these conditions, maybe right by Niagara Falls.

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Post by hardyjim » Sat Nov 21, 2015 3:43 pm

Sequoia would have a better chance,no way with the coast
Redwood,they really do not appreciate any temps below 20F.

My Sequoia handled -18F under a rose cone and stayed green,
it is the Arctic wind that wicks all the moisture out of the
"leaves" mine did good through a few winters with mulch
but the year I forgot to push mulch against the trunk was
its last- horrible winter,even Butterfly pushes that made it through
2012 with live shoots were completely wiped out.

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Post by igor.glukhovtsev » Sun Nov 22, 2015 8:37 pm

I think this guy talks about Taxodium distichum (Bald cypress) : "He landed on a variety called the dawn redwood: a curious conifer that populated this region some 2.5 million years ago, and whose soft, fernlike needles turn a brilliant yellow in the fall before dropping
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Post by TerdalFarm » Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:42 am

I grew a dawn redwood in Oklahoma a decade ago. It suffered growing tip damage in a cold winter, so I suspect that would happen annually in Michigan.
I can ask my father in law up in Manistee if anyone there has them. Which I doubt.
Bald cypress give the same look and they are much hardier, in Oklahoma at least. Not sure if they make it in Michigan.
Maybe Jim will try one?

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Post by hardyjim » Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:00 am

There are a few Dawn Redwood around here,so they
are plenty hardy,the Missouri Botanical gardens have some
stunning ones planted(I think)around 1958 or so when they
were discovered in China(if memory serves),they are really
gorgeous trees!
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Post by cuja1 » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:38 am

Dawn redwoods and bald cypress do fine where I live.
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Post by TerdalFarm » Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:11 pm

[quote="cuja1"]Dawn redwoods and bald cypress do fine where I live.[/quote]

Good to know! So, Manistee, Traverse City, etc. should be fine.

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