This site refers to the three
types of Redwood
by the names commonly used in the U.K:
Giant Redwood
/
Giant Sequoia
/
Wellingtonia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Coast Redwood
/
Redwood
Sequoia sempervirens
Dawn Redwood
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Redwood News - New and Old
2024
Click the links below to read more on other websites
July
Dozens of Wellingtonia being planted across Lancashire
Lancashire News
March
Giant sequoia in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates
(A study by Mat Disney)
Royal Society Publishing
BBC - World's largest trees 'thriving in UK'
February
Redwoods Rising
National Park Service
Save the Redwoods League
2023
December
Ancient redwoods recover from fire sprouting 1000-year-old buds
Science
2022
November
Giant Redwood tree destroyed by lightning in
Sheffield Park
The Argus
September
Free young Redwood trees to public parks and public gardens
Saplings for Free
May
Assembled and annotated 26.5 Gbp coast redwood genome
Coast Redwood genome
February
3D measurements of large redwood trees for biomass and structure
Scientific Reports
(Published 15 Oct 2020)
2021
December
Storm Arwen: Rare trees fall at Bodnant Gardens
Redwood World
BBC Wales
May
Help save a 170-year-old
Sequoiadendron giganteum
in Datchet
Redwood World
Slough Observer
May
Vehicle access restricted to Redwood grove - Royal Forestry Society
MyWelshpool
2nd May
4th May
March
The Biggest Trees in the World: Growing Redwoods in the UK! by George
You Tube
January
Penllergaer Giant Redwood tree felling appeal: Judge asked to rule there is 'no case to answer' - update to
November 2018
article
Wales Online
2020
December
Paul Weiland has uncovered some 165-year redwood trees on his estate
Wiltshire Times
October
How tiny beetles are killing giant sequoia trees
9news.com
October
New 3D measurements of large redwood trees for biomass and structure
Nature.com
August
Will California's giant redwoods survive the raging wildfires?
Live Science
June
A Sequoia Lover From Italy Wanted to Share Her Photos of the Tuscany Redwoods With Humboldt County
Lost Coast Outpost
June
Muir Woods National Monument to reopen at 50% capacity following coronavirus shutdown
Mercury News
June
Sequoia, Kings Canyon to erase Robert E. Lee's name from trees
SFGate
May
Song - Redwood Tree by Cam
You Tube
May
California Redwoods are tops in carbon storage
The Press Democrat
January
James added episode 4 to his Guerrilla Tree Planting video series -
The Giant Redwood
You Tube
2019
October
Simon Reeve explores the land of the giant redwoods
The Americas with Simon Reeve
BBC2 - 27/10/2019
2018
November
Giant Redwood tree reduced to a stump by developer "by mistake"
Wales Online
BBC Radio Wales - 18/12/2018
Rob McBride's interview
October
Castlewellan's Giant Sequoia in finals for Tree of the Year
Woodland Trust
September
Groundbreaking efforts by 19th century Perthshire farmer to propagate giant redwood trees recognised
The Courier
August
Albino Redwoods Point to Resiliency Within The Species
Written by Tom Stapleton
June
Yosemite grove of giant sequoia trees reopens to public
National Parks Service
2017
September
Decoding California's redwood trees to bolster future forests
The Mercury News
August
Alan Titchmarsh vows to save Queen's tree at
Wisley
in M25 row
"One option would take out a bank of trees including giant redwoods"
August
Peggy Edwards gave a talk at
Dundee University Botanic Gardens
on Redwoods
Patrick Matthew Memorial Event
July
Center Parcs Longleat
is home to
UK's tallest Giant Redwood tree
Somerset Live
January
Pioneer Cabin Tree in California felled by storms
BBC News
2016
October
The mystery of the "ghost trees" may be solved
Washington Post
Chimera Redwoods
September
Rhyddings Park 'Big Red' tree chopped down
2BR Local Radio
July
Rhyddings Park in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire - Giant Redwood to be Axed
Accrington Observer
March
Forty Coast Redwood trees planted at the Eden Project in Cornwall
The Guardian
The Eden Project
January
Thundersley's Biggest Christmas Tree
Hadleigh & Thundersley Community Archive
2015
December
Gardeners' Questions Time - Harpenden - Oldest Christmas tree
(Redwood article starts 16 minutes into the programme)
BBC Gardeners' Question Time
June
Climber Scales Coast Redwood Tree With His Bare Hands
Weather.com
June
Drought begins to kill coast redwoods and other iconic trees while state's forest fire risk rises
E E News
March
Scientists at the Eden Project have cloned 10 saplings from the Fieldwood Stump
The Mail Online
2014
August
Species of trees grown in the UK in the Victorian era are set to return
The Telegraph
August
Update - Rare albino redwood tree transplanted in Cotati
ABC News
The Press Democrat
July
Update - Rare albino chimera redwood tree to be relocated in Cotati
You Tube
May
Poachers attack redwood trees in California
The Sydney Morning Herald
March
A rare albino chimera redwood under threat
The Press Democrat
2013
December
Redwood climbing and aerial filming by Height Club
in the New Forest
November
The BBC Radio 4 Shared Planet episode about Giant Redwoods (Sequoia)
Shared Planet
August
Scientists say that climate change may be speeding Giant and Coast Redwood growth
The Los Angeles Times
May
The Coast Redwood garden was a silver gilt winner at the Chelsea Flower Show
Save the Redwoods
May
Crann calls for return of diaspora trees in Ireland
Embrace these ‘previous' natives
2009
October
Redwood World grows its first tree big enough to support a squirrel!
Colchester Castle Park
June
James (Aldred) climbs the Giant Tree
BBC Radio 4
2007
November
Colchester Castle Park Tree Walk
A Coastal Redwood
It's an amazing tree
Close to the bowling green
2003
August
Redwood World plants out their first Giant Sequoias
Center Parcs, Elveden
Redwood World website - first ideas
The original Redwood World website
1946
Documentary on the Giant Redwood Lumber Industry in California
Redwood Logging
1941-48
Dawn Redwood discovered in China
Dawnredwood.org
1852-53
Giant Redwood seeds from America reach the British Isles
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
1843
Coast Redwood seeds from America reach the British Isles
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens