The Dawn Redwood tree is the symbol of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Jamaica Plain — at least according to Arboretum Director William Friedman. And now, 10 of those trees are heading ...

Yes, you can grow redwood and sequoia trees in Southern California. Rick Akers, who lives in Long Beach, has mature specimens that prove the point. “I planted both from seedlings I procured at ...

I first learned of the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) in my Woody Plant Materials course at Temple University in the 1980s. Apart from the one specimen on the Ambler Campus, I’d never ...

Everyone’s heard about the wonders of California’s coastal redwood trees. They can live for hundreds, even one or two thousand years, all while enduring West Coast fires, storms and pests. But there’s ...