then last year, we had a few very hot summer days (37C or maybe even more) and of course weird things happen when you're not at home, both DR's were toasted, completely brown in a single afternoon and top 20 cm's or so dead. BC's never cared much about anything and just grew normally wherever. and I noticed that DR's became a bit stunned and grew poorly so I ceased this practice and being out of the water they started growing normally again. I have used all these potted trees in ponds, most of the pot submerged under water so that young turtles could use them as basking sites. and the story is similar but it goes even further. then I have 3 BC plants and 2 DR (bc 3 years old, dr 2 years old) still in pots, waiting to be planted this year. then there are several Taxodiums (highest close to 2m's) planted directly in water and on dry land - none shows any signs of struggle at all, no matter of how harsh the conditions get. and in such conditions it struggles at time, never defoliating, but obviously under some stress. I have one 2.5m + DR planted on site which gets a lot of moisture in wintertime but not so much in summer, especially if summers don't get much rain. I guess Metasequoia is slightly more popular of the two for some reason though from my experience a bit more needy too. Last year I also did some thinking over these two, which one performs better - where. At the same time, I have observed planted cypress in drier areas also developing beautiful fluting of the base. It is thought that some of the incredible fluting of bald cypress in areas subject to floods is actually an adaptation to give more surface area to a trunk, thereby helping the trunk absorb more oxygen. I need to bring a camera along to build up a portfolio to show how special some bald cypress trunks can be. I have observed thousands of bald cypress, planted and in their natural habitat, and some of the fluting and buttressing of the trunks can be fantastic. That seems to be the conventional wisdom, haha, passed along all over the place by people who maybe just have not seen enough bald cypress. I totally disagree with the notion that dawn redwoods have a much more interesting trunk and bark. I do have a bald cypress I planted as a bare-root one year old seedling in 3/81 that is now 75+ feet in height and probably 20 inches dbh. I agree that the fall foliage of dawn redwoods tend to have more of a peach or apricot color whereas bald cypress can turn a beautiful rusty red.ĭawn redwoods seem to me to generally be a faster grower than bald cypress. I have hundreds of taxodium planted and a nice little grove of dawn redwoods started.
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