How big should my lot be for a Dawn Redwood Tree?
I have a 10 x 10 foot lot in front my house – the front has a sidewalk, one side has a driveway and then there’s 2 feet of walking space on the other sides.
I live on a busy street and also need to make sure it can handle the salt that the city uses in the winter. Personally, I wouldn’t use salt, but, sadly I can’t make the city stop.
4 Responses
Martin G
03 Mar 2010
MasterGardner
03 Mar 2010
If you don’t plan to live there with your tree for more than a few years, you and the tree will survive the small lot. If you plant it in that small space, you or the tree will have to move after a span of 15 years or more.
Emmaean
03 Mar 2010
Plant a nice Cap Yew (Taxus cuspidata capitata). It is not fair to you or the tree to try to squeeze a big tree like a Dawn Redwood into a little space like you have.
Brandon
03 Mar 2010
if u want a tree for that spot, your going to want a small ornamental tree for that size of space. that sounds like a bad spot for a dawn redwood but for something like a serviceberry, japanese tree lilac, who have smaller sizes and good salt tolerances, it would be great. A bald cypress (taxodium distichum) looks very much like your dawn redwood and has a good salt tolerance, but again too big for ur size area.
Well i give you those information and you judge … its always hard to say if you don’t really see the situation of house and sidewalk….
This tree can grow up to 100 feet high and more
They spread about 25 to 30 feet
They like various soil grows in acidic, loamy, moist, sandy, well drained, wet, clay soils.
This tree grow very fast sometime up to 5 feet a year…
This tree like the full sun exposure and grow in zone 5-8
Soil salt tolerance: poor
100 feet square will be pretty tight its better for a 200′ feet square lot
Hope that help you out