Unfortunately also this German cultivar name is translated in the English language as 'Northern Lights'. The specimen at this picture is now 5 years old. Henk and I both received a plant from Mr. Soil Type: Normal, heavy clay, light sandy, chalk, loam. The 'Schirrmann's Nordlicht' does make a central leader but this will take a couple of years.
In settings with full sun, yellow hues will dominate, while is a shadier area, the variegation will be creamier. Its compact form and variable deciduous foliage makes a nice color spot in any garden. The branching of this unique, weeping cultivar provides visual appeal in the winter. Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Schirrmann's Nordlicht' Dwarf Dawn Redwood a colorful foliage on a small scale. Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Schirrmann's Nordlicht' (North Light Dawn Redwood). This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Schirrmann's Nordlicht' (North Light Dawn Redwood). It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. While metasequoia have the appearance of an evergreen, they shed their needles every fall. A dwarf globose form with cream-yellow foliage with reddish branchlet highlights. Schirrmann's Nordlicht Dawn Redwood will grow to be about 7 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 5 feet.
Its feathery foliage is light green in spring and unusual peach bronze in fall. The exquisite Metasequoia Glyptostroboides, a deciduous, slower-growing and hardier tree than its Sequoia cousin, develops a handsome, conical habit with horizontal branching and red-brown bark. Hand grafted and propagated at Lime Cross Nursery. Junipers can be prostrate or erect, evergreen shrubs or trees with aromatic, scale-like or sharply pointed awl-shaped leaves, and small berries. Juniper is a large genus of fifty three species and occupies a huge ecological and geographical range across the Northern Hemisphere.