Kaldenkirchen Sequoia Farm

The Kaldenkirchen Sequoia Farm is a German arboretum that has been used as a biological institute for many years. Part of the protected area inside the city of Nettetal, it's miles located within the "Kaldenkirchen Grenzwald". Nettetal lies in the Lower Rhine vicinity of Germany. In 1946, Illa Martin and Ernst J. Martin, each dentists and dendrologists in Kaldenkirchen, based an arboretum near the Dutch border. There, and in a close-by laboratory-plantation several acres huge from 1952 on, they cultivated 1,500 giant sequoia seedlings from seeds of US origin from Martin's nephew Albert A. Martin of Santa Barbara, CA. The seeds were collected in Sequoia National Forest at different elevations, wrapped in burlap to keep them and despatched to Germany.

They wanted to find out if the massive sequoia, which had existed in Germany earlier than the ice age, might be added to German forestry. There turned into on the one hand a place of in simple terms massive sequoia, on the opposite an experimental arboretum with trees which include Abies grandis, Abies concolor . Lowiana and Coast Douglas-firs. The undertaking become financially supported by the German Research Foundation and met with amazing hobby from dendrological circles, mainly in Great Britain and in the USA. Part of the field solely planted with giant sequoia become reserved for obtaining consequences of productivity via the "Ecology and Forestry Department" of North Rhine-Westphalia.