What: Giant redwood is one of the most majestic of North American trees. It is not for the small garden but for large gardens, landscape and park settings, because of its eventual mammoth scale.

Giant sequoias don’t take root just anywhere. In fact, these majestic trees grow only in 67 isolated groves in the Sierra Nevada—”Goldilocks groves” where soil and climatic conditions are just right.

Wawona, toos-pung-ish, Hea-mi-withic, Sequoiadendron giganteum, giant sequoia: Whichever language you speak, each of these words can evoke a sense of wonder when we call out its name. Our love for ...

At a corner house in San Anselmo, a different redwood grows on three corners of the lot. The redwoods are the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens; the Sierra redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum; and the ...

At a house in San Anselmo, a different redwood grows on three corners of the lot. The redwoods are the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens; the Sierra redwood or giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron ...

A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world's oldest trees shows that California's western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to new research. Scientists reconstructed ...

In woods across the UK, an imported American stands higher and broader than the trees that surround it A wooded ridge overlooking the Ouzel Valley in Bedfordshire has a remarkable set of trees ...

What: Sequoiadendron giganteum “Pendulum,” aka weeping giant sequoia, is one of the most animate of all trees. The branches on this selection are tightly pendulous and conform to the trunk, which can ...