The Scottish Redwood Trust catalogues and campaigns to protect the existing redwoods Scotland,
over 4500 trees, and counting.
Our cultivation programme is creating a seed reserve for the first redwood cones to arrive in Scotland, the first to arrive in Europe. They were received and cultivated by 19th century landowner, Patrick Matthew in August 1853.
In California, these majestic trees are in danger of extinction due to climate change and development.
“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time — and long before that — God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, levelling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.”
John Muir, Scottish-American, 'the father' of the American national parks.
In Scotland, climate change brings a warmer and wetter climate, the perfect location for redwoods to thrive.