{"id":494,"date":"2015-02-16T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kigo.se.vkube.cloud\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:56:27","slug":"hemlock-hill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/the-arboretum-in-baggbole\/western-north-america\/hemlock-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemlock Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/02\/Hemlockknallen.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/02\/Hemlockknallen-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/02\/Hemlockknallen-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/02\/Hemlockknallen-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/02\/Hemlockknallen.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The name of this place is given to the arboretum&#8217;s oldest tree, The &#8216;old hemlock&#8217;. It is a 99-year-old (2025) mountain hemlock, <em>Tsuga mertensiana<\/em>, which was 50 years old and one meter tall when it arrived at the arboretum in the early 1980s. The mountain hemlock can grow 30-40 meters high and often grows into a shrubby form. The bark is dark grayish to reddish brown and the needles, which are normally 10-25 mm long and grayish white, grow in bunches from the shoots.<\/p>\n<p>The normal range of mountain hemlock is northwesternmost North America from British Columbia and Alaska southward along the coast down to California at high elevations (up to 3000 m).<\/p>\n<p><em>Tsuga mertensiana<\/em> is usually found in cold, snowy, alpine or subalpine places. It is a slow grower and specimens have been found more than 800 years old. Mountain hemlock grows on most soils but prefers organic soils with a low pH value. The specimen in the arboretum comes from the experimental planting on the Avardo mountain in J\u00e4mtland. Here in Baggb\u00f6le our hemlocks grows together with douglas fir (<em>Pseudotsuga menziesii<\/em>), tamarack (<em>Larix laricina<\/em>) Rocky mountain maple (<em>Acer glabrum<\/em>), and blue spruce (<em>Picea pungens<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of this place is given to the arboretum&#8217;s oldest tree, The &#8216;old hemlock&#8217;. It is a 99-year-old (2025) mountain hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana, which was 50 years old and one meter tall when it arrived at the arboretum in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/the-arboretum-in-baggbole\/western-north-america\/hemlock-hill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":797161,"featured_media":0,"parent":121,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/797161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/1974"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}