@@SgtS1lkyyour a real barn rat your like bacteria everywhere about Muslims while Hindu Indians have completely taken over your system banging your women left r centre
Hats off to the Victorians who planted these magnificent trees so long ago in Britain. A legacy of beauty for future generations to enjoy. Come visit us in California to see what your trees will look like in a few thousand years.
The area the Redwoods (tallest tree) live in on the coast of Northern California and Southern Oregon is VERY wet like Britain. The Giant Sequoia is a different but related tree and is the biggest by trunk size, they live in the Sierra mountains, drier than the coast but still a lot of moisture via snowfall, unlike the coastal redwoods they evolved to handle dry fire seasons. Most of the Giant Sequoia are in three national parks in the Sierra mountains and the drought ended over a year ago with record rains and snowfalls last year and again this year, even ancient Lake Tulare is refilling and a ancient lake in Death Valley, the Sequoia is not going away in the US anytime soon.
It's amazing how fire retardant the trees have evolved up in the sierra. I live where the dixie fire happened and many of the trees that looked burned and dead are now coming back to life. Sadly a lot of the area did burn down.
Very interesting - and timely - we border a former country/manor house which has several of these in the garden. There’s a Planning Application in to chop them all down to redevelop the site for housing, with the developers claiming these 120 year old trees are approaching end of life! Along with the carbon storing, according to the US Dept of Agriculture, each of these can take up 500-800 gallons of water PER DAY - so if they’re removed, where’s that water going to go…. They seem to be popular with tawny owls, bats, woodpeckers, crows (!), starlings, treecreepers and all the usual UK songbirds
There are two giant sequoia and at least one coast redwood in the New Forest and I noticed lots of woodpecker holes in the sequoia. I'm sure they provide a lot of refuge or give the illusion of safety to many species. I heard a Tawney owl as well
In California, we always refer to this species as the Giant Sequoia to avoid confusion with the Coast redwood which is a different species. The ranges of the two don't overlap. Coast Redwoods despite their narrow range along the coast are still quite numerous. it's nice that the UK may save our native CA tree. CA may be a source to save an endangered Mexican parrot species. The Red-crowned Parrot is endangered in it's native range but there are more of them living wild in Southern CA than in their native range just like the situation with the Sequoias. Funny how introducing a species can sometimes have unknown benefits despite what usually happens.
@@deinsilverdrac8695 Thriving in UK. Problem with them and their giant cousins though is that without taproots they make a mess of the underground pipes in cities. Ours is about 150 yrs old so same age as house and it plays merry hell with the sewer pipes.
They are not threatened by wild fires. They are too big with a thick bark. They have survived for at least 8,000 years and wild fires are part of the landscape in the US.
they ARE threatened by wild fires. they survived 8000 years because california used to be very very different before colinisation. i mean there was literally a giant lake there not too long ago
@@stephenskinner3851 20% of of redwoods in their natural range in california was wiped out by wild fires over 2020 and 2021. This isn't something to be dismissive about. Almost every extinct species survived for thousands and thousands of years before they ultimately disappeared.
I was in San Francisco in the 1970's and picked up a cone. I planted the seeds in a pot, transplanted them and put some in the nearby forest but the deer did for them. I put one in the garden, it quickly got to 6 ft, next year 12 ft and the next year 18 ft - I cut it down!
The difficulty with the Sierra Redwood in Britain is not getting it to grow but to reproduce. The seeds are locked tight into the cone and are only released during a fire. Need a couple months with hot dry weather with an occasional dry lightning strike while still having a plentiful source of water. With all other trees dead from the fire and seeds released they will just compete with one another to grow. BTW, trees are more or less totally resistant to pests and disease.
Toffs planted them on their country estates. There was a fad in the 19th century to ship plants and animals in from abroad. It's why invasive north American grey squirrels have driven our native red ones to the point of extinction and Japanese knotweed is destroying the foundations of people's homes.
'Scientists have counted up to half a million' no they haven't, they have just made a guess. I'm growing some to plant out though, I hid them when they came to visit.
Those are Dawn Redwoods, a related native species thought to have been extinct for 100 million years until a confused Westerner found one in China in WW2.
I’m glad others can enjoy these trees without having to come to California. I don’t know about extinction. There are plenty growing even in southern California.
Learn about their native environment on the north California coast, which is very cool and wet. California has a nearly infinite range of climate types.
When a species is simpatico with the local ecology they call it naturalized rather than invasive, but I don't think it's quite settled to be either as yet.
It’s also good for desertification in the south meaning economic migrants will flee north when their farms become untenable in increasing numbers. It also means tundra melting creating a feedback loop after releasing methane. Fish stocks that were historically caught in British waters are also moving north.
I’ll likely be buying some shinobi bear claws and climbing to the very top of them & building a hut at the top to escape the coming disaster those glo bal ist demon-rat overlord Dews have inflicted upon the indigenous peoples of these isles…
Never knew about this. Love it.
Mental how this wasn't shown on terrestrial news channels.
At least something thrives in the UK.
Immigration is also thriving 😅
@@SgtS1lkyyour a real barn rat your like bacteria everywhere about Muslims while Hindu Indians have completely taken over your system banging your women left r centre
Fugees n clandestines seem to thrive
and with it the UK gets worse@@SgtS1lky
Oh dear. Anothet Socialist
Hats off to the Victorians who planted these magnificent trees so long ago in Britain. A legacy of beauty for future generations to enjoy. Come visit us in California to see what your trees will look like in a few thousand years.
Visit California lol good joke
Specimens can be found in many places outside of their native range.
They're actually very tolerant, and can be sucessful in most climate zones.
Growing yes, reproducing no.
Trees are Amazing.
Indeed they are😊🫶🌲
They're tree-mendous. 😏
The area the Redwoods (tallest tree) live in on the coast of Northern California and Southern Oregon is VERY wet like Britain. The Giant Sequoia is a different but related tree and is the biggest by trunk size, they live in the Sierra mountains, drier than the coast but still a lot of moisture via snowfall, unlike the coastal redwoods they evolved to handle dry fire seasons. Most of the Giant Sequoia are in three national parks in the Sierra mountains and the drought ended over a year ago with record rains and snowfalls last year and again this year, even ancient Lake Tulare is refilling and a ancient lake in Death Valley, the Sequoia is not going away in the US anytime soon.
All it takes one bad fire year though. 15-20% of the species was killed (in its native range) in just two fire seasons ('20-'21).
It's amazing how fire retardant the trees have evolved up in the sierra. I live where the dixie fire happened and many of the trees that looked burned and dead are now coming back to life. Sadly a lot of the area did burn down.
Very interesting - and timely - we border a former country/manor house which has several of these in the garden. There’s a Planning Application in to chop them all down to redevelop the site for housing, with the developers claiming these 120 year old trees are approaching end of life! Along with the carbon storing, according to the US Dept of Agriculture, each of these can take up 500-800 gallons of water PER DAY - so if they’re removed, where’s that water going to go….
They seem to be popular with tawny owls, bats, woodpeckers, crows (!), starlings, treecreepers and all the usual UK songbirds
please grow more
I think they're fully grown....
@@LewisNuke92
Nope
They're barely over 160 years old
They can go up to 3000 years
@@deinsilverdrac8695 I see sarcasm isn't one of your strong points
There are 3 or four of these around my home near Edinburgh. They are so beutiful and their bark is quite soft in summer
Didn’t know about this. They’re absolutely magnificent. Just like the native British Oak tree.
English Oak
@@ilikelampshades6 theyre not just native to england lmao
@@lewis0705 I didn't say it is. I'm correcting the name on the original comment. The species is not called British Oak, but English Oak
Imagine what they'll be like in 100 years
Imagine what they'll be like in 1000 years
A block of flats or Aldi most likely
they can live up to 3000+ years
imagine how big these trees get when they reach that age
Finally some nice news!
Cheers from California !
Fun Fact :
Sequoia trees are soft to the touch !
Once upon a time the UK was full of great trees, they turned them all into ships.
My childhood home built in 1820 had a HUGE one in the garden, it was magnificent
As a Fresno native, I'm glad Britian is saving our beloved trees. It's a relief that fire and heat won't kill them all
I been to the Sequioas in California, gigantic is an understatement compared to these little babies.
Works exactly the same with obeseity
Can our local wildlife use these trees? It always amazes me how many species oak trees look after.
I’m sure the local owls and woodpeckers will have no issues 😂😂
@@liamwright2510 Which uk insects can use this type of tree?
@@kevindruce8915 they will adapt to it. It’s just wood at the end of the day.
There are two giant sequoia and at least one coast redwood in the New Forest and I noticed lots of woodpecker holes in the sequoia. I'm sure they provide a lot of refuge or give the illusion of safety to many species. I heard a Tawney owl as well
That's treerific news! I shall be rooting for them!
😁🌳
Awesome. I love nature, so its great to see redwoods growing here. Fantastic to see, long may it continue as its only good for the planet.
Huge trees are amazing, the sheer scale of this form of life and their age has always fascinated me ❤
Everyone should go to bedgebury pinetum in Kent.. it's amazing &
beautiful there .. 👍
Is there no stop to things invading this country?!
Local UK arb here.
Fun fact: Red Wood trees have spongy bark at the bases to soak up water, its natural defence against wildfires.
Grew naturally around 60 million years ago in England
Probably not
Just a distant cousin
@@deinsilverdrac8695 a close relative in appearance sometimes their petrified wood is found in the Thames valley
It was a lot warmer here then so would have thrived. Nearly everything perished, sadly in the ice ag😢e
@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 that was a different species, sure related, but far from the same tree type
Nice! Grow more
In California, we always refer to this species as the Giant Sequoia to avoid confusion with the Coast redwood which is a different species. The ranges of the two don't overlap. Coast Redwoods despite their narrow range along the coast are still quite numerous. it's nice that the UK may save our native CA tree. CA may be a source to save an endangered Mexican parrot species. The Red-crowned Parrot is endangered in it's native range but there are more of them living wild in Southern CA than in their native range just like the situation with the Sequoias. Funny how introducing a species can sometimes have unknown benefits despite what usually happens.
California Coast Redwood thriving too, got one in our front garden.
No they aren't
They're endangered and barely a few % of what they once were
@@deinsilverdrac8695 Thriving in UK. Problem with them and their giant cousins though is that without taproots they make a mess of the underground pipes in cities. Ours is about 150 yrs old so same age as house and it plays merry hell with the sewer pipes.
Finally a foreign native that’s come here to integrate
Lmao
😂
Not really, the can’t reproduce here
And they dont reproduce here
Check back with us in 2000 years to give an update.
They are not threatened by wild fires. They are too big with a thick bark. They have survived for at least 8,000 years and wild fires are part of the landscape in the US.
they ARE threatened by wild fires.
they survived 8000 years because california used to be very very different before colinisation. i mean there was literally a giant lake there not too long ago
@@lewis0705 Why do some trees have seeds that will not germinate unless they are burned?
@@stephenskinner3851 20% of of redwoods in their natural range in california was wiped out by wild fires over 2020 and 2021. This isn't something to be dismissive about. Almost every extinct species survived for thousands and thousands of years before they ultimately disappeared.
At last!!! Big Foot finally has a place to go on vacation!
They are also quite common here in mainland Europe aswell. Especially in parks and arboretums.
wait a minute the giant Sequoia is a different tree than the giant redwood.
The trees are also growing extremely well in New Zealand.
I was in San Francisco in the 1970's and picked up a cone. I planted the seeds in a pot, transplanted them and put some in the nearby forest but the deer did for them. I put one in the garden, it quickly got to 6 ft, next year 12 ft and the next year 18 ft - I cut it down!
Hell yeah, trees
That’s really great!
Yes.we have a fair few where i live in devon
Thriving on all that lovely co2
Cool, but Sequoias and Red Woods are different trees
Someone I know cut one down for a job he was on must have been about 5 feet diameter & the wood itself is quite soft
The difficulty with the Sierra Redwood in Britain is not getting it to grow but to reproduce. The seeds are locked tight into the cone and are only released during a fire. Need a couple months with hot dry weather with an occasional dry lightning strike while still having a plentiful source of water. With all other trees dead from the fire and seeds released they will just compete with one another to grow. BTW, trees are more or less totally resistant to pests and disease.
Cool finally some good news
Dont tell Sycamore Jack!
I can't get these to grow, some seeds germinate but then they die. The Victorian gardeners must have been really good.
A little ways to go to get the Europe height record. A Western Australian Karri tree in Portugal measures in at 72.9m.
Before the ice age glaciations sequoia relatives were widespread across Europe, cool to see them back.
would have been nice to hear who it was planted them here
Toffs planted them on their country estates. There was a fad in the 19th century to ship plants and animals in from abroad. It's why invasive north American grey squirrels have driven our native red ones to the point of extinction and Japanese knotweed is destroying the foundations of people's homes.
@@justonecornetto80 Ours is in the front garden of a Victorian townhouse, Toffs indeed but not in the countryside.
We have them in NZ too
Imagine if plants adapt just like everything else. Imagine that
youll have unregistered ones too because i have five, only 2 years old, not quite sure where im going to put them yet 😂
Where are they ? I haven’t seen any ?
They counted urban trees which is complete sonsense. There are way mor urban redwoods in california than the uk
There’s one outside my bedroom window
Yogi and Bubu are on their way.
Love this
Awesome
Then theres me, panicking, looking for Thylo's 🤣
That’s so cool,,,🌲
Interesting
I want grass plants to grow this big
Redwood trees are protected from forest fire by thick bark. Redwood trees LOVE fog.
Grow more
'Scientists have counted up to half a million' no they haven't, they have just made a guess. I'm growing some to plant out though, I hid them when they came to visit.
Yeah this is ridicoulus
Blessing to United Kingdom 🇬🇧!
Oy. The tree tunnels were made a century ago.
I've heard there is ONE mature Redwood in China and it is unknown how it got there.
Those are Dawn Redwoods, a related native species thought to have been extinct for 100 million years until a confused Westerner found one in China in WW2.
I’m glad others can enjoy these trees without having to come to California.
I don’t know about extinction. There are plenty growing even in southern California.
if that is correct they will be as tall as the Californian redwoods in just 36 years...
Not really lol
Ancient woodlands and more trees being destroyed! This is great but doesn't make up for what we are losing!
Who knew?!
Beautiful yes but I would not want it in my back garden 😯
Learn about their native environment on the north California coast, which is very cool and wet. California has a nearly infinite range of climate types.
Why aren't these considered an invasive species?
to be a invasive plant species they need to be uncontrollable/ overpopulated and harm the enviroment.
these type of trees dont fit them conditions.
When a species is simpatico with the local ecology they call it naturalized rather than invasive, but I don't think it's quite settled to be either as yet.
Wow
That's about the only thing flourishing in the uk
I'm flourishing, easy
Needs to make way for a new electric bus route!!!
Treemendous
The daily mail is bound to call this woke nonsense on par with seatbelts, lube, and CRT 😂😂
CRT isn't woke nonsense?
Where humans tread, destruction follows in their wake.
Thank climate change for that.
Infact thank climate change for making the earth as green as ever with thriving plant life
cool.
If all the countries around the world are in debt, where has all the money gone?
No one cares really
Untill a developer with a fat wallet comes along, as its in his way..
Not a fan of this at all. Planting non native trees is rarely a good idea
Er,the Victorians planted these....
Repeat after me:
CO2 is great for green life!
Correct THESE Eco loons.. as C02 levels are 0.04 get any lower plants will suffer & so will we.. 😱
Water is great for plants too. So flooding isn't real!
It’s also good for desertification in the south meaning economic migrants will flee north when their farms become untenable in increasing numbers.
It also means tundra melting creating a feedback loop after releasing methane.
Fish stocks that were historically caught in British waters are also moving north.
@@MiemKingplants are perfectly happy at 200ppm nobody is talking about removing all CO2 from the air🤦♀️
Climate breakdown.
Yes like they don't have Sequoia seeds in America, interesting story but with a stupid one liner at the end.
I agree as British Columbia and Oregon are growing the trees as well.
The Council will cut them down for Health &Safety reasons
Must be all that CO2.
We have to eat the babies.
I’ll likely be buying some shinobi bear claws and climbing to the very top of them & building a hut at the top to escape the coming disaster those glo bal ist demon-rat overlord Dews have inflicted upon the indigenous peoples of these isles…
Oh its climaaate change propoganda. Wish i hadnt given them my valubale click.
Not for long. I`m building a boat
Well done, industrialised nations! Let's keep pumping out CO₂. The carbon cycle is a wonderful thing!
Well done sequoias x