Great stuff thanks. What was the soil like? It is obviously sympathetic to the conifers.

I honestly didn't poke around in the soil much. I was too busy running around looking up at all the trees!

Thanks Garen. I think I saw that specimen - I visited Spring Grove a few years ago when my wife and I were in Cincinnati for her cousin's wedding. Wonderful collection of trees in the cemetery!

Someone better at IDing might help, but that pine cone looks like it has some P strobus influence. Still a very handsome tree w/the drooping-needle character of Wallichiana.

Thanks for these pictorial tours. Very nice.

tj

"Someone better at IDing might help, but that pine cone looks like it has some P strobus influence."

Sounds like Resin-bait to me!

It does seem to taper a little more, similar to strobus.

Treeguy, was that the botanical garden in NF, Ontario? Was there some years back and it has lots of good stuff.

Still wondering if anyone here has seen the two big Metasequioas right near to the falls themselves. Those are two big twin trees as well.

I wondered about that myself, for some reason I think there are gardens on both sides.

Yes - that last pine really doesn't look like P. wallichiana. And you're starting to get into the realm of big for a dawn redwood when you clear 100', with proportionate stem diameters.

Tom - yes, this is the one in NF, Ontario. Directly across the gorge from Devil's Hole State Park on the US side. O kept my eyes open for the twin ones closer to the falls, but didn't see them. I didn't have too much time to explore though - wife and I had to get home to relieve the babysitters (Grandma and Grandpa).

I just can't account for that. Not your actions, lol, but that nobody ever sees those two big devils by the falls. They had name plaques on them, the whole bit.....and were indeed big, big trees. So, there's that lodge-I can't remember what all that is all about-right adjacent to the falls. I suppose it's where you buy your tickets and get your rain suit on to walk behind the falls maybe-it's been years- and these are not right there, but "downstream" just a bit. Still within the zone of mist but not right on top of it. I'd hate to think they got cut down. When I was there last-must have been the early oughts-they were in perfect condition.

I will keep my eyes peeled next time I'm up that way, and will take some pictures if I find them!

Sounds good treeguy. So just to help pin these down, they were again, downstream from the falls proper...on the Ontario side, quite near a walkway that spans the edge of the precipice. All this by memory, so automatically suspect! But I think that's it. The trees were not twenty feet apart from each other-again by my memory banks.

Sounds good, thanks for the extra info. No promises on how soon I'll be up that way again, probably later this summer.

Thanks bud. I mean, these twin trees were perfect. I noticed them from a long ways off, thinking.....Hemlock?.......Thuja plicata?......Sequioa?.....only to both realize and read upon walking up to them that these were indeed Metasequioa. They were getting up there too-I'd say somewhere near 100Ft.