Cloning Old Growth Redwoods

your gonna need fog or some kind of misting system. There is an artificially establihed coastal redwood forest thats been established in New Zealand and it actually grows faster than the California trees.

You dnt need to clone them. Forest service actually sells "volunteer sets" of sequoias buds that arise as buds from dead root segments of sequoias that have blown over or were "logged" and the buds arise from the stumps. They replant many of the new trees from these stump volunteers and then, with the extras, they sell at the main park gift shop (because the dead stumps produce hundreds of the little volunteers on an ongoing basis for up to 50 or more years).

Lots of conservatories have hundred year old specimens in large glass framed sequoia halls. Theres one in the national Gardens, Le Dew, (near Baltimore), Longwood Gardens (near Philly) . Theres even several up along the Maine Coast.
With the exception of the Maine Species, the others need to have "artificial foggers"

Hers a pic of the Grove of Sequois at the Longwood Gardens near Kennett Square Pa. These trees were schlepped in and replanted maybe 100 yers ago and theyve been tended and they grew like hell

There’s one in the New Forest.

UK and Ireland are nicely shielded by the Gulf STream so Ive seen palms in London and in the open in Dublin

Southwestern Switzerland nearest near Lake Geneva also has palms. I’ve seen them in person.

We loved Longwood Gardens and the Conservatory when we last visited there 3 years ago. Took our NZ friends to see them and the Lancaster Amish countryside.

your lucky you didnt get accosted by Amish Bikers. Heres an AMISH BIKER GANG. Thee guys are mean , especially when thyre wearing their colors.

Give me a break! My muzzle loader can outrage their bow and arrows any day of the week.

There are other choices. I think the brands are called Kick bikes and Foot bikes. Less weight and maybe better designed. They are Not cheap, especially considering they don't have the costs of chains, sprockets, and shifters.

I got to do a short test ride on one of them, and it was lots more fun than it looked.

they just call em scooters around Amiish country. I had a scooter as a kid but it didnt have those 20" wheels. A coupla the Amish kids have fashioned electric motor versions, and since the e motor is only an "assist" they arent against ordnung.

These are close to Perpetual motion because they charge the batteries going downhill and usually thats enough to get you up the next hill if it isnt too steep. There is a conservation of energy thing goin on though, because somewhere on your route you will probably run out of juice and youll act as a scooter till a minimum charge is achieved so the ride is over say, 15 miles, then the battery craps out. (They use Milwaukee red lithiums) and these need to be fully drained and fully charged

Of course they are scooters, but calling them bikes helps with the sales end of the business.

uhhh, you a stockholder in the White Horse scooter and storm front buggy company

Imagine schlepping one of thos things to the top of Sandia?

Not Roger. I was at Sandia Crest a few years and there was barely enough air for me to make it across the parking lot to the restrooms.