France

Thomas Jacquin from Jura, France created this timeline of one of his giant sequoias over a few years. The dates are labeled on each photo. As of April 2012, the trunk is 4 inches diam. and 6 feet tall.

Jordi of Barcelona-Catalunya traveled to Cheverny Castle located two hours from Paris in the Loire Valley. This shows one of the stalwart mature giant sequioa trees planted decades ago adding to the beautiful gardens of this Chateau.

This picture was sent to us by Davidina Haigh of the UK. While visiting a public park in Brantome, in the Dordogne area of France, she and her husband found this magnificent giant sequoia. You can see the contrast of the size of the trunk as her husband Ian stands before it.

A more distant view of the giant sequoia in the park in Brantome.

Another view taken by Jordi of the Cheverny castle grounds giant sequoia from a distance.

Giant sequoia growing in Clairegoutte, the Haute-Saone, France. The tree was planted behind the parsonage of the Lutheran church in this tiny village by an American pastor who served there in the mid 20th century. The center is named Le Sequoia after the tree.The project is to convert the parsonage and its barn into a hostel/retreat center. It will have a special reopening May of 2011. Thank you Kathrine Douglass of PA for contributing this tree image.

Gil from central Florida was visiting Lyon France and obtained images of a beautiful giant sequoia growing there

Thomas Jacquin from France sent this image of a giant sequoia growing in his yard on 1-30-08.

Johannes tree trunk of a wellingtonia-sequoia tree. There used to be two but one died from lack of water.

Johannes tree from near the village of Saint-Martin Vesubie, in the southern Alps at 996 meters elevation. It was planted in the early 1900s.