RICHARD SHIELL: Redwoods not an ideal choice locally
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Richard Shiell is a professional photographer who signed with his first picture agency in 1988. In the 1990s he served as photographer for Monrovia Nursery Co. He began gardening in the seventh grade, inspired by a horticulture class and by the bromeliads at a Santa Monica nursery. He has a BA in biology from UCSB and a master's in landscape architecture from Cal Poly Pomona. For a dozen years he was the publicity chair of the Kern County Rose Society. The late Perry Aminian, founder of the Green Thumb Garden Club, once told him "your roses are overgrown," which he took as a huge compliment.
Among the most often-planted trees in Bakersfield is the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens. There are several reasons: it's a California native plant, evergreen, familiar, readily available, nice-smelling and not particularly messy. Yet hundreds of dead redwoods are removed from our yards and streetscape every year.
A lot of arborists consider redwoods overplanted. I'd say Sequoia sempervirens is desperately misunderstood and almost universally misplaced in landscapes.
Let's begin with the obvious, that name, coast redwood. We aren't exactly on the coast -- the waves of the Pacific Ocean aren't likely to reach Bakersfield without geological upheavals of biblical proportions. Long-living and growing to enormous proportions, redwoods thrive in dense groves in California's northern coastal counties. The climate is wetter and cooler than ours; with thick morning fog much of the year. The total precipitation within the redwood grove is measurably higher than in surrounding lands. Underneath the trees the ground lies in deep shade, carpeted in fallen twigs and leaves forming perpetually
renewed deep mulch. At the edges of the grove where more sunlight reaches the ground low-growing shrubs and ferns grow abundantly. The soil contains a high proportion of organic matter and is measurably acidic.
Understanding the characteristics of a healthy redwood grove makes the problems of so many local redwoods readily apparent. First is the social nature of redwoods. They crowd together by the hundreds or thousands, their branches intertwining. They can take the shade cast upon each other better than they could take the exposure to heat and wind suffered by standing alone. Simply put, a redwood alone is out of place. Three or four redwoods planted so far apart their branches never touch benefit each other not at all.
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The California bay tree in my front yard is likewise stubby, an adaptation to our climate. But a redwood tree grows straight up heedless of the weather. The bigger one gets the more water it needs, and the more it suffers exposure.
A conifer (Sequoia, coast redwood) is possibly the tallest tree in the world at more than 379 feet. Another conifer (Pinus longaeva, the bristlecone pine) is possibly the oldest tree in the world at about 5000 years of age, and there is a conifer that
A vertical pan up a giant redwood at the beginning of the Seasonal Forests episode had great depth, and detail in the tree's bark was well conveyed despite the vertical motion. Faces in close-ups during a Stanley Cup game looked a tad over-processed.
Beyond the delicate beauty of the flowers I began to notice other details along the trail; the red sinewy trunks of the Manzanita trees, the smooth burnt-orange bark of the Madrone, the soft velvety leaves of the hazelnut tree.
the curators created “What is Sculpture,” a section focusing on the Akari light fixtures/sculptures that Noguchi first showed at the 1986 Venice Biennale and that were inspired by Japanese lanterns and umbrellas made from mulberry tree bark paper.
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I don't think this photo truly captures the scale and beauty of these amazing trees. Also, too much sharpness was applied and makes a lot of the surrounding leaves look unnatural, and the lens flare (greenish discoloration) of that bark on the trunk make the tree look sick. These trees are brilliantly deep red, and the over-the-top contrast, heavy vignetting, as well as the lens flare, don't capture that deep natural color in my honest opinion. Sorry for the bad review. Post A Comment
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