A project involving planting 36 large grade dawn redwood trees in the Gordon Carmichael Reserve is delayed for two weeks by the wet weather.
'It's just a shocker at the moment, the guys can't get in anywhere,” says Tauranga City Council arborist Richard Conning.
Mature dawn redwoods. Photo from Google Images.
The trees are donated by the Tauranga Tree Company and are supplied in 80 litre bags.
The trees are to be planted in Gordon Carmichael Reserve when conditions dry out.
Dawn 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 province in south-central China.
A little over 1000 trees survived for millennia in a region not even considered an ideal environment for metasequoia glyptostroboides.
It is one of the great modern silvicultural mysteries. Dawn redwoods grow to about 60m.
4 comments
Trees in a Park, whatever next!
Posted on 07-05-2011 08:28 | By Murray.Guy
Thank goodness the Tauranga Tree Company didn't insist these trees were planted down some narrow residential street, but in an area like Gordon Carmichael Reserve where they belong, where they will flourish, where they are needed!
RED WOODS
Posted on 07-05-2011 09:43 | By WARTS N ALL
So let me understand the situation here, Senario one: NORTHERN hemisphere trees, DONATED, costs paid by TCC all in at Carmichael Place. Senario two: LAURI trees (from NZ), unique planting of varieties, mowing the lawn cost of $10,000 pa (at TCC over priced rates) land use donated to TCC ... Something really is wrong here that money is being slurged on Red Woods meanwhile we level the NZ Native Kauri's ?
THAT WAS 'WARTY' SELWYN PARK
Posted on 07-05-2011 13:12 | By WOMBLE
Was where TCC are trying to bail on something that the "community" had organised and was doing for very well for a poultry $10,000 a year, then the BOFFINS got involved, and now it is being made into a mess.
Trees...
Posted on 07-05-2011 15:38 | By silent no more
Are we to assume that none of the fantastic tall growing and ancient native trees we have in New Zealand, are not worthy of being planted at this site... It does make a farce of the Council's attitude towards those trees which were donated for the Botanical Garden in Brookfield.
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