Is this the largest Dawn Redwood Tree in America?

In this video, we visit the beautiful Schoepfle Garden in historic Birmingham Ohio to see the largest Dawn Redwood tree in the state. While there, we take in the scenic vistas and many other interesting species of trees in the park. If you enjoy this video, please like, share and subscribe to this channel.

[@tennesseetexan1957]

We planted about 20 of these trees on our property. They were about 20 inches tall in gallon pots less than 2 years ago. The largest one now is 10 ft tall and has a girth as big as my arm at the base. These grow extremely fast and will be beautiful trees when mature. My only regret is that I am 65 now & wont live to see them as big as the one in this video. But I figure if I make it to 80 they will be massive trees by then.

[@outdoors4604]

Awesome! As the famous quote goes, “the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago…the second best time is right now”. Hopefully you’ll get to see those trees grow to 100+ feet tall. Enjoy!

[@MrMisanthrope1RBjr]

im going today to a dawn redwood tree to see if i can collect a seed or two, been 4-5 years since i last visited it and see if it or how much it has grown.. it is older than this tree in video. Its in south western michigan.. theres some unusuly large sasafrass trees near so i guess i will check those out too.

[@sinjinadams2862]

@Tennessee Texan I feel you! I'm 62 and was fortunate to have planted a Dawn Redwood 20 years ago. I live in Charleston, SC. The tree grew like a weed for the first 10 years or so and then pretty much stopped! I'm not really sure why. I do know it doesn't seem to like our not summers. I was hoping that by the time I was 80 I'd have this monster size tree in the yard but I don't think it's going to happen.

[@tennesseetexan1957]

@@MrMisanthrope1RBjr well, what did you find? Give us an update.

[@tennesseetexan1957]

@@sinjinadams2862 Well I hope that’s not the case with mine. Summers are pretty hot here in southern Tennessee & so far the growth has been phenomenal.!

[@ehoffmann47]

There is a Dawn Redwood in New Jersey that is listed as the state and national champion. 212" in. circumference, 61" in. diameter, and 112' tall. Located in Willowwood Arboretum. Quoted from their website: "NJ and National Champion Dawn Redwood - Metasequoia glyptostroboides: Located at the corner of the Stone Cottage, across from the Tubbs House. This towering specimen has a trunk circumference of 212 inches, a crown spread of 60 feet, and an overall height of 112 feet, making it not only the New Jersey State Champion, but the newly crowned National Champion as well. Henry Tubbs and Dr. Benjamin Blackburn planted the tree in 1950, along with other Dawn Redwood saplings that they received as seedlings from Princeton University. The seedlings were propagated from seeds collected by Chinese foresters in the city of Lichuan, located in the Hubei province of China. The foresters were on a plant collection expedition there, funded in part by the Arnold Arboretum; to collect herbarium specimens and seeds of this once thought to be extinct species. The seeds they collected were sent to the Arnold Arboretum who in turn distributed them to arboreta and horticulturists throughout the county. James Clark, a horticulturist at Princeton University, was a recipient of some of the seeds and grew them on in to seedlings. Luckily, he offered three of these incredibly rare plants Dr. Blackburn and Mr. Tubbs, who grew them on further and eventually planted them out at Willowwood where they still stand today." willowwoodarboretum.org/gardendescriptions/

[@FrederickDunn]

Nice! At 3:09 I noticed they put springs over the label so the tree could increase in diameter without swallowing the plate into the bark. First time I've seen that modification. That alone was worth watching this informative video. Thank you!

[@erikjohnson9931]

Being in Michigan on the west coast we get hit by straight line winds that have ripped off the tops of our white pines as they tend to be one of the tallest trees around. I actually loved your walkthrough as I have never seen purple beech! We have a ton of beech trees but only the common variety.

[@randygonzalez5758]

This is such a great video and tour of the Shipley Gardens. Thank u!

[@drfreddave9020]

Wonderful to see so many beautiful trees growing to full size

[@paulthompson2147]

Great video, thanks for sharing some awesome trees.

[@andrewbetrosian2784]

Dawn redwoods are so easy to grow, have two as bonsai from seed. 8 Y/O

[@timmillan6701]

Wikipedia lists the tallest recorded DR at 160ft. It was inChina and destroyed by lightning in 1951. It also lists the largest in the US at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. They are 135ft tall. Other commenters have suggested that there are taller trees elsewhere, but I can find no confirmation of those claims

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Beautiful trees!

[@sinjinadams2862]

When I was in the Navy, there was a massive Dawn Redwood at the Botanical Gardens in Norfolk Virginia that may rival this tree. The first time I saw it I had no idea what it was but it was so prehistoric looking and absolutely beautiful! The Dawn Redwood has been my favorite tree ever since. The gardens also have a grove of Coast Redwoods that are also very impressive and beautiful!

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

Maple seeds (Acer sp.) are called samaras where as ash (fraxinus sp.) are called keys, if anyones interested :)

[@happennyflute]

There's a larger dawn redwood at Lakewold Gardens in Lakewood, WA

[@dzs1945]

I planted a dawn redwood in the spring of 2022. I was about 40 inches high. It grew 57 inches last summer. Really good soil and I watered it when ever it didn't rain for a few days.

[@blakespower]

I guess it gets full sunlight? I thought one last year and its 4 inches tall now! but this is its 1st true growing season

[@dzs1945]

@@blakespower Yes full sunlight

[@inregionecaecorum]

I saw my first Dawn Redwood in the Winterbourne Botanical Gardens in Birmingham UK. I now have two of my own

[@rdemm05]

Sry, but if your going to make a video about a certain tree you should start your video introducing that tree, not making me sit through 10 minutes of footage I didn't come here for before getting to it. Otherwise I liked the part about the dawn redwood.

[@dzs1945]

Yes indeed. I highly resent that. I planted a Dawn Redwood about 1965. It it right around 95 feet high. In Lancaster,. PA.

[@GoneCarnivore]

Poor fellers. Y'all just don't have time for anything do ya.

[@WilhelmWilder]

@@GoneCarnivore 🤣, amazing

[@ryankm48]

I skipped through ot that is why there are divisions and a slider bar... although the red beech was interesting. Didn't know they could get that big outside of Europe. All the ones I have seen are under 50'

[@NaturalLuck]

Stop crying around

[@ryankm48]

We have a tall one in Ault Park like that. Ours is a little bit more branchier. No one trimmed any of the branches. I would say your is taller. We have one of the originals from 1949 in Springgrove. That one is more scraggly due to pollution being located in Central Cincinnati. It is next to a pond and boy do they love pouring chemicals in there... the water is dyed blue green! Still is wide though. The one at Ault park had a sappling because I went out looking for Dawn redwood seedlings and found one and planted it in my front yard over the summer😂. It is still alive!

[@Squiggy486]

11:15 for Dawn Redwood

[@livingstone6275]

you really have a great voice to do videos like this i hope you keep it up

[@MrMgriz]

The state champion dawn redwood for Ohio is in spring grove cemetery in Cincinnati. The one shown in this video is not the largest on the state but is very close. Beautiful gardens thanks for the guided tour.

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

Dawns love cemeteries! They feed wonderfully off the dead bodies, and I am not joking. You wouldn't believe what the best fertilizer for these trees actually is.

[@Neomoonbug]

Greatings from west part of Ukraine! Nice video with soo beautiful trees, thank you! Expensive it was to glance on Dawn Redwood, and purple Beech tree. Last one very special for my province that calls "Bukovina" (in ukrainian we call Beech tree - "Buk"). Our forests have always had a lot of Beech, an incredible and useful tree.

[@cacogenicist]

Lots of new trees will needed to be planted in Ukraine, after the invaders are thrown out. *Слава Україні!*

[@blakespower]

I love beech nuts but good ones are hard to find because many worms get inside the nut

[@keithpix]

Thank God for Otto!

[@changer1285]

The Arnold arboretum has some of the first ones planted after they were cataloged in China.

[@redwood1957]

I saw one in Buffalo NY about 14 years ago that was close to or as large as that. If I remember correctly it was planted sometime after ww2.

[@cacogenicist]

There is a _Fagus sylvatica_ growing in my neighbors front yard, in close-in North Portland, Oregon, that is at least twice the size of that beech. Shockingly massive trunk. Western Oregon has some old Dawn Redwoods -- there are a couple on the University of Oregon campus that were planted in the early 50s, I think. And there's one a little ways north of Eugene, in Corvallis, which was planted in 1949.

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

I'm fortunate to have the champion American beech AND holly in my backyard for this part of NC. A few years ago, one of the biggest branches gave way and it flattened my dad's pickup, as well as ripping the wires off the house. When Duke Power showed up, the guy said, "That's a whole tree!" I told him to follow it back with his flashlight and see what it had been attached to, LOL.

[@SubjectiveFunny]

I really enjoyed that walk around. Thank you for sharing!

[@hebneh]

Since this tree was planted in 1959, which was about 10 years after dawn redwoods were first grown in the USA, it's reasonable that the older ones would be bigger.

[@claudecoteIAM]

I just bought two Dawn Redwood saplings at the local "Hardware" store in this town in Eastern Europe where I live. I am trying to repair the damage that was done to my land by the previous owner chopping everything down to get the firewood before selling it -- and I was just looking for some information about them, as I had never heard of them before. I just wanted something that would get big and grow fast, and there were only two at the store, so I bought them. This was a very good video, and the comments also make me very excited to get these in the ground! I also bought a Ginko tree, with no knowledge about how big they get either. So that was a nice bonus as well! Thank You.

[@methanial73]

We have one in a park here that is much, much larger than that. 5-6ft in diameter and probably 150-175ft tall. It's absolutely gorgeous.

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

What's the location? I'd be interested in documenting it.

[@methanial73]

@@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14 Hylebos wetlands park. Federal Way Washington.

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

Thanks!@@methanial73

[@blakespower]

it is strange how it grows like below each branch it has that gap in the trunk

[@monumentlandscapeservicesl6464]

That's probably one of the largest purple beeches around, as well (second one).

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

The dawn redwood, is so named for its age of 200 million years, dating back to the dawn of time. It is not named after a woman, so it is not capitalized, like Douglas fir. Its Chinese name is shui-sha, meaning water fir or spruce. Metasequoia is from the Greek word meta, meaning akin to, and its early mistaken identification as Sequoia by Shiguru Miki. Glyptostroboides was named after a local Chinese plant, glyptostrobus. "Oides" indicating the naming after another plant. I have a ton of info on this tree on the website for the Crescent Ridge Dawn Redwoods Preserve, if anyone wants to learn more. Our goal was to study these trees in a native setting to learn what no one knew at the time. This is a very nice specimen, but yes, there are many that are even more impressive out there! I initially thoight that dawns would top out around 200 feet, like a baldcypress, but the OR trees are already there and showing no signs of slowing down, let alone stopping. Keep in mind these trees have reached nearly 200 feet in only 80 years, so the potential for 250-300 foot trees is well within the realms of possibility.

[@codywillis1823]

I would love to come see your dawn redwood preserve! You might be the only person more obsessed with these trees than me. I've emailed your website as well. Would love to hear back

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

@@codywillis1823 Hi Cody! So good to hear from you. I will try and catch up on my email this coming weekend. I've been lax on checking it recently.

[@AshInTrees]

Such beautiful trees. I wish we knew how large the dawn redwoods can get here in the Midwest. We'll just have to wait and see!

[@jrite77]

Planted a 5ft one here in northwest IL a few months ago. We're right on the border of growing zone 5a/5b so hoping it will be able to handle the winters here. Definitely looking forward to watching it grow over the coming years if it makes it through the winter.

[@adamfrbs9259]

Dawn redwoods are supposed to be able to handle any of the northern States climate. I have a Giant Sequoia growing in Wisconsin off the Mississippi River near the IA/WI/MN point for the last 3 years.

[@MrMisanthrope1RBjr]

@@jrite77 THERES A FEW of these dawn redwoods growing near me around kalamazoo michigan that are quite large, i think they were planted around 1940s ish, they are thriving.

[@MrMisanthrope1RBjr]

they get very big up here

[@BobsAdvice]

I have two growing in my yard in La Crosse WI. I know of two others here-one by the University and one in Myrick Park. So far CC they are handling the winters.

[@donaldechelberry9364]

Check the redwood trees in the cemetery in Cincinnati

[@chosen1one930]

Youll love this, two massive popular trees on Fredericksburg country club but one is most likely 250 years old. It was 31 feet around at the bottom when measured in 2008. It is a tulip popular but unlike any usual popular tree. Instead of growing straight up with mainly branches at the top, this tree had branches as wide as the tree closest ti the ground. Just absolutely massive. The other is by 11 green more typical straight up growth pattern with branches at the top. This tree is also massive but not as big. It had grown so much it broke the lightning cable that was put it in some 15 years before. Really awesome trees unknown if still standing or alive but they should be out in the record books if so. I worked there back at that time but I didnt follow through at the time

[@TallTreesClub]

Out west where we have trees growing to over 28 feet diameter, we find amusement reading "massive" in the descriptions written by easterners about some of their mature trees ..... "Massive" is almost exclusive to the west coast > kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4KXp2uMl7Oshck

[@blakespower]

yeah when grown out in the open they get really fat and spread their branches

[@SoNoFTheMoSt]

The ants could just be farming aphids on the tulip tree, might not be an issue

[@stargazer2756]

They will grow here. I live in NE Ohio and have seen them around. My sister is even growing a coast redwood tree in her yard and it is youngster but doing well for the past 5 yrs! Not sure how she keeps it alive since we do have nasty winters here close to Lake Erie.

[@D.A.Hanks14]

There is an arboretum in Wooster that has some.

[@stargazer2756]

@@D.A.Hanks14 I will check it out. I think I know what your talking about since I was there many years ago. Going to wooster tomorrow as a matter of fact. thanks! lol

[@D.A.Hanks14]

@@stargazer2756 It was raining cats and dogs when I went by it in 2011, so please let me know what their trees look like.

[@RichardJamesStayAtHomeDad]

There’s a beautiful one in Van Vorst Park in Jersey City New Jersey

[@tankgrief1031]

Good to know they can grow so tall. My neighbour has planted one 4 ft from the fence.

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

#1 rule: NEVER trim the lower branches on a dawn redwood! They are what allows this tree to develop the wonderfully burled bole that makes it unique in the world. The tallest trees in the world are located at Peavey Arboretum in Corvallis, OR. They are getting close to 190 feet tall. On the east coast, the tallest I know of are at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, VA. They are over 120 feet.

[@timmillan6701]

There are a couple of Coast redwoods at W&M also - some of the biggest on the east coast.

[@UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks14]

@@timmillan6701 Yes, and the brilliant orangey color of their bark is stunning. I have been there twice to photograph the dawn redwoods.

[@maan9176]

WHAT? I ALWAYS THOUGHT REDWOOD GOT MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT! 😮

[@outdoor_kat]

@maan9176 This is a rare Chinese redwood, and was only recently discovered in the 1940's, after presumed extinct. Hence, the planting year of 1959 would be shortly after its discovery, when seeds were beginning to be shared around the world.

[@timmillan6701]

@@outdoor_katI don’t know that I would call them rare at this point- the species ( and some named varieties) are available at most larger nurseries in areas where they will grow all across the country. Just planted a bright golden variety ( Ogon) in my yard- absolutely beautiful tree

[@Freshbott2]

If it wasn’t the biggest it was by the time you got to it 😬 still nice video though

[@MrMisanthrope1RBjr]

ha good one🌲

[@pauldiamond4219]

There are many Dawn Redwoods here in GA. I planted a pair of 10' male/female DRs in 1986. They are now each about 50 feet tall. Guess I should have put them in the back yard.

[@sauvageaux]

❤

[@blakespower]

I think I have seen larger Dawn redwood trees in Annapolis in peoples yards

[@4eyedsherpa]

If you came to see the redwood , first ten minutes are a waste of time .

[@D.A.Hanks14]

This is a nice specimen, but nowhere close to being the biggest tree in America (the world). That honor goes to the trees at Peavey Arboretum in Corvallis, OR. They are getting ever closer to the 200 foot mark. The biggest mistake that people make, is zipping off the lower branches. The first six feet or so, are the branches that will make the burls that make this wonderful tree so unique.

[@jovysu4509]

A dawn redwood growing to 200 ft, OMG!

[@D.A.Hanks14]

@@jovysu4509 I figured that's about where they would top out, about 25 years ago, but since those trees show no signs of slowing down, they can certainly surpass that. We just don't know. We have trees here, that are much taller than even the biggest tree in China that was hundreds of years old, in only 75 years or so. It would not surprise me if they added another fifty feet to that, but I'll never see it happen.

[@timmillan6701]

Wikipedia states that the tallest recorded Dawn Redwood was 160ft before it came down

[@pinkpanther3622]

I was thinking he gonna talk about red wood tree but he talking something else, I m looking for to know only about red ...

[@coltendavison4351]

its at end

[@coltendavison4351]

at 11:15

[@paulsypersma7165]

must be trimmed toxic collector

[@Cali-ssippian]

Sorry but those were IMPORTED FROM CHINA. The real deal is where I grew up In California... The Coastal Redwoods.😉 Did a paper on them back in my college days. Lots of ancient trees in The Bay Area and California in general.

[@hebneh]

The native redwoods of the west coast of North America are not the only redwoods that exist in the world. Dawn redwoods are equally the "real deal" in their homeland.

[@changer1285]

Prehistorically the dawn redwood was all over the northern hemisphere, including in the arctic when it was warmer.

[@lump88]

WOW. i live in Pa. and i drive past on twice a day everyday, its massive and beautiful. message me and ill send ya a pic