![]() The weeping habit is excellent, making a graceful dawn redwood with a unique texture and habit. Discovered as a witch’s broom in New York. Miss Grace is a dwarf weeping selection of dawn redwood. Special Attributes: When the deciduous conifer drops its foliage, the peeling bark and swooping framework supply winter interest. Soil Type: Normal, heavy clay, light sandy, chalk, loam.įoliage Colour: Bright green and orange-bronze needle-like leaves. The tree’s small needles and thin branches resemble those of the species Taxodium, but with opposite, not alternate, buds and needles. This gorgeous plant makes a superb living sculpture when it is staked up so the branches drape freely. Hand grafted and propagated at Lime Cross Nursery Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Miss Grace’ is the first Metasequoia cultivar with strongly weeping branches. Metasequoia is important in the Cupressaceae family because it links the alternating pair leaf arrangement of the Cypresses and Junipers with the needle-like leaves of the Redwoods. ![]() Metasequoia are large deciduous conifer trees with reddish-brown fibrous bark and soft, pale green linear leaves arranged in two ranks on the shoots, colouring beautifully in autumn. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone. A genus widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, first discovered in 1945. Miss Grace Dawn Redwood is an open multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a rounded form and gracefully weeping branches.
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