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Originally Posted by Don098
No, absolutely not. It's not the cold that would bother them, it's the lack of rainfall that they need...plus their roots would go waaay to deep to have them atop the museum.
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Is the museum under the trees??? I thought it was that building with the crosshatch facade - is that just the entrance? The water needs could be taken care of feasibly enough: I mean, think about all the water the city is already using on the waterfall fountains, so it's not like water's a big issue in NY. The roots could be fed through underground irrigation.
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Originally Posted by Don098
Their considerable weight makes it totally unfeasible too...redwoods only live in that small sliver of the world because their micro climate is just perfect enough for them to survive.
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Survive naturally, sure. But there are redwoods in botanical gardens in Ireland, Germany, and England too. Also, as to roots, my understanding is that sequoias tend to have relatively shallow root structures - they spread out horizontally to stabilize the tree. Anyway, that's what I heard from the Yosemite tour guide.
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Originally Posted by Don098
Redwoods are iconic for California...why on Earth would you put them in NYC??
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Because they're beautiful, tall, majestic, smell awesome, and can live for thousands of years. I wish I had the artistic skill to create a rendering of what the memorial would look like with redwoods so I could show what I'm thinking about, and how beautiful it would be. As for being iconic of California, that shouldn't matter - NYC proudly displays gifts from and tributes to all the great things of the world, from the Statue of Liberty (French) to that Roman arch whose name escapes me, the Pantheon clone that is the Columbia University library, etc. etc. Just think how exotic a dense grove of redwoods would look in the middle of Lower Manhattan, and how the intense, conical dark green living towers would look at the base of the shiny, reflective blue faces of the WTC skyscrapers.
I'd also think douglas firs would be a more beautiful choice than dwarf oaks.