The Larch has the perfect look for a 2020 Christmas tree.

@hikerx9366

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@peehandshihtzu

3 жыл бұрын

It's a covid tree, LOL

@Mark-zu6oz

3 жыл бұрын

@@peehandshihtzu O covid tree, O covid tree...

@peehandshihtzu

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mark-zu6oz LOL

@rawfoodelectric

3 жыл бұрын

Awww. 2020 wasnt that bad...

Thanks Adam. Fun Fact; according to standard building code (certification study information) larch is an approved sub grade foundation material for residential housing. I suppose that means that once upon a time larch was used as a fungus and insect resistant ground contact base where masonry was too costly or otherwise not available.

Native Americans called the tamarac the "snow shoe tree " the wood was is very light yet incredibly strong thus good for snowshoes . Great video!

@Wanna.Wander

3 жыл бұрын

Cool tidbit💜

I suspected that you would cover the Tamarack when I saw the title of the video! Thank you for the added knowledge. When I observe needles turning golden on the Western larch (Larix occidentalis) on properties that I now own in eastern WA and western MT, I often think of that steward of land and wildlife, Aldo Leopold's description of hunting Ruffed grouse in marshy environs near his farm in "A Sand County Almanac." If I recall correctly, Leopold described the golden color as beacons guiding his hunts towards the birds' preferred habitat, and a shower of needles evidence of his missed shot. It has been at least a decade since I last read the book, and the mental image I retain satisfies me even if not photo-realistic. In an older but more vivid memory, I laugh guiltily at my own youthful ignorance and desperate effort with but a double-bit axe to chop down, drag to camp and process into lengths and splits before fitfully burning a, as I learned, living tree for pitiful little warmth during the late season deer hunt of 1972. It was a season in which the northeastern Washington State temperatures plummeted twenty degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Larch was not endemic anywhere near my western WA home; and the needles had already dropped near Sheep Creek, leaving me clueless by the time I arrived for the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day that marked the season opener in that decade.

Larch...I can’t get Monty Python’s Flying Circus 🎪 out of my head now. 🤪

I really need to learn my evergreen identification features such as needle count, etc. Thanks for another great video Adam.

Fascinating. Didn't know there could be a deciduous conifer!

@MrGoatflakes

3 жыл бұрын

Larch?

@austintrousdale2397

3 жыл бұрын

Baldcypress, _Taxodium distichum_: am I a joke to you?

@Wanna.Wander

3 жыл бұрын

I've been wondering, as seen in my travels, some conifers lose their needles/leaves💜

I was aware of the bald cypress being a deciduous conifer, and my parents have a Dawn Redwood in their yard that's also deciduous. I wasn't aware of the American Larch being deciduous. I recall a past early spring fishing trip to Tamarack Lake where I noticed a bunch of "dead conifers" along the shoreline. In retrospect, I guess that assumption was wrong and those were just Tamarack trees. Thanks for the info!

I have "the worst Christmas Tree" in my yard.....

I had NO clue that there was a deciduous conifer! I remember that the white pine was the first tree I ever learned to identify. About the age of 5/6. My dad taught me that the 5 needles spelled “white” and that I could spell it with my fingers. That pleasant memory has persisted throughout the years. 😊 Merry Christmas!!🎄

@austintrousdale2397

3 жыл бұрын

Baldcypress, _Taxodium distichum_: pleased to meet you

Perfect for the Adams family 😂

@pyrotbear5920

3 жыл бұрын

You rang

Next year I plan to sign up for your course! Thanks for the continued free content

It’s a Charlie Brown tree! Beautiful & interesting! Thank you. I will be learning more. 😊

Someone planted a European larch on my property years ago--this time of year the fallen needles seem perfectly designed to stick to wet boots so that you track them into the house.

To Adam & all the folks behind the scenes and watching, to have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I love Tamaracks -- so beautiful and mysterious. For me, they are a symbol of the Minnesota North Woods, a place very dear to my heart. Thanks for talking about this wonderful tree!

Watching this brought back fond memories of walking through the woods of Green County and Summerset County with my father.

there is a Tamarack tree not far from our house. And a beautiful estate in Vermont is named after this tree (Tamarack Hill Farm). Thank you for wonderful learning sessions!

I didn't know larch trees grew here! Thanks, again, for spreading your knowledge! You're a great teacher, Doc, and much appreciated!

Merry Christmas Adam!! I love your videos ! Since I started watching your videos I have consumed a lot more different edible mushrooms than I ever use to pick!!

Charlie Brown Christmas tree

@BuddhatheBlackDog

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, just thought the same!

@Seer-Of-Lies_Giver-Of-Mutiny

3 жыл бұрын

Except Charlie's tree is an evergreen so... no.

I grew up loving American Larch (Larix laricina) in northwestern Ontario. In spring it pushes out its beautiful bright green needles, in summer it fills in with a lovely soft medium green, and in fall, it is one of the prettiest yellow gold trees on the landscape. Just love larches!

@garywait3231

3 жыл бұрын

Me, too !!😊😊

Merry Christmas Adam! I did not know there were deciduous conifers. The beauty of nature showing that there are no rules in diversity.

@squirrelgunsmith1131

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, even and especially in diversity there are rules...which are immutable.

Great informative video Adam of @Learn Your Land. I really enjoy your posts, and am learning more from each one watched. Thank you for the value you provide. May you have a safe and bountiful Winter season! ⛄😀

Merry Christmas!

@PLANETPYRMA

3 жыл бұрын

Now, BRING ME SOME FIGGY PUDDING! (Fruit cake optional)

@faith5563

3 жыл бұрын

@@PLANETPYRMA Mushroom pineapple casserole anyone?

I never have a Christmas tree.. They are best out doors for me .A fascinating video .Have a Happy Christmas 👍🌲

That was great :) I love larch, I'm surrounded by tamarack up here in Alberta close to the Rockies. One of my favorite trees, all year round.

@garywait3231

3 жыл бұрын

This Vermonter agrees with you!

@Learn Your Land As always...thank you for your kindness and information. If you go back and look at a few of my Mushroom videos, you might be able to help me identify some specimens Properly. I'm in central Pennsylvania.

Thanks Adam I wonder how many of these beautiful trees have been cut down because people didn't know the tree was deciduous. Much Love

@cynthiadonahey9989

3 жыл бұрын

Larch needles were harvested once

This information saved a tree from being cut down. We were worried it was dead because "what conifer would drop it's needles"? Now we don't have to cut it down, and we can observe it for many years to come. It's right outside my house. Thank you!

Thank you. May you and yours be healthy and happy this holiday season.

Thanks for your videos Adam Merry Christmas to you🌲

Merry Christmas and thank you for your very informative videos 🎅🌲

Great segment! Thank you...

I moved north to Maine this year, and have some American Larches around me for the first time. They change color later in the autumn than the other deciduous trees, giving a lovely final blast of fall color. As for Christmas trees, they might be a good one for folks living in the southern hemisphere!

they do make good Christmas trees in the southern hemisphere where Christmas is in summer.

Lots of tamarack in the bogs of northern Alberta, they're a spectacular yellow in the fall.

I love Pennsylvania's nature. It almost makes me want to stay...

@lindatisue733

3 жыл бұрын

Everywhere there is nature there is wonderful nature. Even in Tokyo, suprised to find some nature, even a tiny patch was beautiful. Been picking mugwort, prickly lettuce and St. John's wort from the "wild patch" behind my urban apartment.

You always make things so easy to understand. Great information. Thank you. Merry Christmas!

Have a wonderful holiday and a safe new year!

thanks for this video, Adam!

Around the 6:30 mark, I can smell the tamaracks for about 20 seconds. That light early summer breeze.....oh yeah.....I will hang onto that until Spring! We have tams around the young forests of our property. When we bought it there was old farm field and a few little trees here and there. 25 years later it's a thriving forest. Tams are one of my favs.

Thank you Adam, I so appreciate your video's and what I get to learn 🌲🎄🌲

Another great video Adam! Great tree info.

As always, another excellent video from Adam. Very informative. Thank you Adam.

Thank you. Fascinating.

Great video! Thank you!

Can you do a video on boreal shrubs? Speckled alders, hobblebush, ozures, etc?

Thank you Adam for all your incredible and inspiring work, even though I live in West Wales there is always something of relevance and interest within! Wishing you a happy Christmas and a better New Year, Steve

I absolutely love your videos. I learn so much. Merry Christmas!🎄🎄💖 Wondering about Eastern Hemlock...

Thanks, Adam, and Merry Christmas from the Upper Peninsula. Tamarack lover here. Their particular golden color in the fall is worth a drive through the woods.

I love the Tamaracks we have in Northern N.H. I actually transplanted several little ones I had found growing wild to my yard.😁 They were a very useful tree to the native peoples of the North country. Thank you , very educational video.

Nice, learned something new today, thanks for the video.

Merry Christmas Adam

thanks you for talking about Larch trees....have several on the property here in central VT....one, especially close to the house. yes, the soil is probably not very acidic on a hillside, mostly birches and beeches....but the Larch tree was spectacular during the fall, as it dazzled with it's golden glow.

Merry Christmas to you Adam. I love the Larch tree and I do use the branches with the beautiful little cones as ornaments around my home and to decorate Gift packages. I sometimes spray them with gold paint and they are gorgeous. Also, they last from year to year.

Thanks for that. As always, awesome information.

Such informative videos. I really enjoy them. Here in Oregon we are blessed with many excellent choices for Christmas trees...Douglas, Grand and Noble firs. Had a spruce, Blue I think, one year and it was a prickly mess. Bless you and your work!

I'm kinda new to plants but I was pretty sure I knew the deciduous conifer before you said it... oh the sweet sweet validation! Loved the video!

That explains why they're so successful on the north east coast of Canada. Very harsh winter weather As for Christmas trees? I can remember a few post New Years clean-up days where I wished the tree didn't have any leaves. 😃. Merry Christmas Adam!!

Thank you for that education on larch trees. I hope you'll do more videos on all kinds of trees in the forest. When I first moved from the Southeast to Nova Scotia and encountered larch trees, in the fall I thought there was a terrible tree disease going around to make the needles golden and then fall!

I don't recall seeing a Latch tree in SE PA, but like many things I learn on this channel, I probably will now that I know what it is. It's funny how once you learn about a plant or mushroom how quickly you can spot it.

Hi, Adam~ I love hiking and I always meet a lot of wild life but I don't know the name of them. Now I am getting some thanks to you!!! It's awesome:)

Your videos fascinate me💜its your broad knowledge I feel

Thanka again for your video on the Larch,First for myself about this tree,

great info on the conifers particularly on larch tree, particular indeed👍👍👍

I grew up with cedar trees for Christmas. Smelled heavenly! I thought pine Xmas trees were weird. We always cut our trees from the woods. And decorated with running cedar. Merry Christmas Adam and all!

Merry Christmas Adam!🌲 Thank you for your videos , they’re awesome! I learn so much from your clear descriptions, and beautiful photography. BTW - Don’t Larch trees have a symbiotic relationship with a certain mushroom 🍄? A bolete maybe? Thank you again.

Charlie Brown still gets a Larch 🎄🤷‍♂️😉🎅🏻

I work as a tree planter in BC and one of my bosses got to plant a smiley face out of larch trees: they mapped out a smiley face and only planted larch trees in that smiley face area. Then when autumn time came and the larch trees turned yellow you could see the smiley face from if you were to fly above the area. Probably a picture of it online somewhere haha.

I did get this before 2:30 but would have only known this because we frequent camp in the Black Moshannon. Fist time I saw a patch of larches in fall I asked my uncle what was killing all the pines.... doh!

Interesting to learn about more deciduous conifers! We have several Bald Cypresses in our yard - such beautiful trees, can't wait for them to green back up this spring.

Growing up here in Virginia, we harvested one of the coniferous groups that are plentiful and available at the holidays, the eastern red cedar. A juniper, it has quite dense foliage (as opposed to the nonexistent leaves of the larch) and has a nice scent as a bonus. It’s a bit prickly to work with, but remains my favorite. Thanks for the vlog, Adam.

Ibe seen one of these but I literally thought it was dead. Har to notice in the summer months but winter it stood out like a sore thumb lol

Adam, you have very good videos, thanks, it is useful also for me, even though I live in the Central like lEurope (Slovakia), many of the trees you mention grow here as well... like larch, there are many areas with it ....etc

Thank-you for your informative and entertaining videos! From the Christmas tree capital of the world, home of the Balsam Fir, Merry Christmas!

Leafless but useful👍,🌲 just wanted to say I need a break too!😉 Thanks for your videos! Happy winter solstice to all!🌲🌟 💫 🌠🌌✨🎄

MY Larch tree is probably more than 50 years old. We planted it and loved it's beauty for all those years appreciating the lovely color of the leaves in the spring and the cones that the goldfinches love so much so that sometimes it looks like a decorated Christmas tree! This year 2020 is the first year that I didn't see ANY cones at all! Coincidently it lives next to an eighty something year old Silver Maple which has an over abundance of "helicopters" every spring. Both trees shadow my deck and I do have to blow the helicopters off at least 3 to 4 times daily or else there will be almost as many seeds inside as outside!........... I didn't have to blow off the deck this spring at all! If there were any seeds there weren't enough to bother getting out the blower............ What gives? PS , I noticed the oak trees have no leaves (they usually hang on until spring)...... My neighbor usually has so many spruce cones in the fall they have to rake before they mow or else they would have a law suit or two. ........ I have been plating onion sets in my garden every spring for well over 50 years and always enjoy the harvest. This year I pulled them out and they were no bigger than when I planted them! A very strange year in so many ways!

I LOVE larches! Out here in the Pacific Northwest we have what is called "Larch Madness" (in Washington). Northern WA is famous for its jaw-dropping displays of Subalpine larches (Larix lyalli), which takes on an artful form in the high subalpine reaches in the mountains, sharing its elevation with Subalpine fir and Mountain hemlock. Here in Oregon though, we don't have that species, but instead have the Western larch (Larix occidentalis), whose range also extends into southern WA. We also aren't as crazy about larches here in Oregon as our northern neighbor, but I absolutely love our Western larches here. They're the tallest species of larch in the world! And they often grow with tall Douglas fir, Mountain hemlock, Lodgepole Pine, Western White Pine, and Ponderosa pine. They also take on an artful form at full size, and look perfectly Christmas-tree like in form when younger. I love larches so much, that I have planted two Western larches and four Subalpine larches in our garden. Western larches are great for the landscape because they let in the sun during winter, and thus also do better against winter storms. They also have strong root systems. You won't find any of these species sold, except in native nurseries or nurseries with native offerings. Most places elsewhere carry the other more popular larch species for the garden, like Japanese larch, European larch, and maybe American larch too I suppose. Subalpine larch is especially difficult to find available, but I strongly would recommend Western larch, if you can find one. Unlike European larch, Western larch grows narrower, and typically does not grow as tall as it does in the wild. Usually only to 50 ft in the landscape. Better for small gardens because of its narrower form, I figure. That said, these two species are not typically planted in the landscape (especially Subalpine larch), so both are sort of experimental in the planted landscape.

We get tamaracks up here in NH/ME, but pretty much just in bogs and around tree line.

We have lots of Tamaracks here in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.

We grow near swamps and Larch also have mushroom and lichen relationships;) Much love xoxox

ADAM 👍💪,long time no see,.You are a walking Encyclopedia 💥,.,Music 👍 .,Always learn and enjoy your well put together vids.. Sending Much Love .THANK YOU⛄

😊👍In Alaska we have the Tamarack trees which are like Larch.

Out west we have the Western Larch (Larix occidentalism) Which is separate and distinct from tamarack but everyone seems to call them tamarack. Also some people will be welcoming western Larch into their homes on Christmas day but not as a Christmas tree but as firewood. Western Larch is high in BTU's, is easy to split and burns hot, it is considered excellent firewood. Anyway thought this would complement the video, cheers!

Greatitude, as I do a gardening foraging channel I enjoy the works. I have a forest mainly turkey tails and jelly fungus found and some oysters and not alot of mature beech trees out their.

Love tamaracks! Fond memories of walking into a stand of them at college. It was after the needles dropped & the orange glow was amazing!

Cedar from the woods worked for me this year

Merry Christmas!! Let’s take a walk sometime together!!

Merry Christmas

my personal favorite needle-dropper is eastern hemlocks

Fascinating

Well done.

I loved your video, featuring larch/tamarack trees. No, I will not be using one for a Christmas tree (In fact, I decorate a large potted grapefruit 😊 ). But, a half century ago, I transplanted several from the wild to my Vermont house lot and that of a neighbor. They are thriving still, providing light shade in summer, but being deciduous, let the warming sun through in winter. Also, they were able to thrive in wet ground, where many other trees could not.

...unless you live down-under with christmas in summer

Lots of Larix laricina near us in NE PA, just as you say. I've always love this tree.

Hey Adam, from eastern Susquehanna Cty.. There are not many stands of Larches here, but I do know where the only one is, that I can see. It is on a very rocky north-facing hill. I suspect that they all were planted there. My area has many old homesteads and farms that were abandoned.

There’s actually a few Larch trees in NYC parks I’ve seen them a couple times. I don’t think I realized they were deciduous.. I probly thought they were dead so good to know! I did learn about Conifers that lose their leaves through Bald Cypress but I didn’t put 2 and 2 together that the Larches were the same. I also didn’t know they were called Larches I only knew them as Tamarack. Thanks for the great video!

Larch, a nice choice for a see-through x-mas tree.