Dawn Falls
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Metasequoia glyptostroboides, (deciduous dawn
redwoods), were found as fossils in Germany, until their rediscovery in two
small areas in the mountains of China in the 1940's. Saved from the edge
of extinction, now a wonderful cultivated conifer I've used at a six foot
waterfall called 'Dawn Falls'.
At the break of dawn, when the
pinks and reds of the Cascade sunrise peek down on Dawn Falls, the dawn
redwoods flanking both sides of the waterfall glow a pink tinted gold in mid
October. These mornings are just breath taking.
Sequoia sempervirens, (coast
redwoods), fill the upper draw of the falls, some day to be the giants of the
hill. Bridal wreath spirea fill the throat of this small seasonal stream
like a billowing torrent of white water in the spring run off. Red
'Lucifer' crocosmia, arching from the right mid flank like British gunners,
humming birds and their buzzing whorls their projectiles. Rhododendrons
add the body of mixed bright colors through out this area.
This sounds so busy I think I'd better build a bench.
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