Dawn Redwood - Metasequoia glyptostroboides Japanese Gardens

Dawn Redwood - Metasequoia glyptostroboides Japanese GardensDawn redwoods once blanketed the entire Northern Hemisphere and were thought to have been extinct for millions of years until their rediscovery in 1941 by a Chinese forester in a remote corner of the Sichuan (at the time, Szechuan) Province in south central China. Somehow, a little over one thousand trees had survived for millennia in a region that ironically is not even Metasequoias ideal environment! How then, did it survive in the Shui sha Valley

it will become more conical

Slowly it grows

orange and purple

and excellent foliage

New from the Thompson Nursery in Oregon

Considered a dwarf

it is not really from the Himalayas

The pendulous clusters of urn-shaped white-blushed-pink flowers are produced year-round along the coast with peaks in spring and fall

but there is no proof of that

The Netherlands and introduced to the trade by the same nursery in 1978

registered and introduced to the trade

so plant it near contrasting foliage plants that have gold