Are giant redwoods native to UK?

You will see Giant Redwood and Coast Redwood trees of varying ages, but in the main they will be around a hundred to a hundred and sixty years old. Very young by their own standard, since they live for thousands of years, but they were only discovered and introduced to England in the 1850's.



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