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Continuing the series . . . It’s amazing – I’ve lived in Europe for over 20 years, never really paying much attention to whether you can find the mighty Califormia Giant Sequoia trees here or not – but, once I spotted one, it seems I am spotting them all over the place! Here is an […]
Switzerland, and to a lesser extent southern Germany, is dotted with majestic California Giant Sequoai trees, many of them hundreds of years old. I took this snap on the eastern shore of Lake Zürich, where this tree was planted next to a church: Interestingly, due to global climate change these trees in California are all […]
Continuing the series, here is a pair of giant California redwood trees standing next to the Klosterkirche in the north central Swiss village of Rheinau:
Giant Sequoia trees, which also have the amazing Latin name Sequoiadendron giganteum, are amazing amazing things. They can grow to hundreds of feet tall, weigh many thousands of tons, and live for many thousands of years. And what’s more amazing, there are quite a number of them that have been born and raised in Europe! […]
Continuing the series, a wonderful fountain next to a pond in front of a mighty California Giant Sequoia tree,