Great idea botann. Wish I could grow that combination here. Watch out for T. Rex, he could be hideing behind one of those conifers.

Dave

Since there are gunneras native to Chile theoretically it's actually a likely combo. Wild habitats or ranges may not overlap, of course.

Its interesting that animal life was so drastically different a hundred million years ago, while plant life (incl. conifers) apparently haven't changed all that much.
I would be curious to know whether any fossil remains have ever been found of plants that were as radically different from today's flora, as the dinosaurs were from today's fauna.

There are ancient animals around today, such as sharks, seagulls, lots of other marine life in particular. That lizard in New Zealand is supposed to go back a real long time. Alligators and crocodiles have been on the scene more than a few years as well.

Here is another view. It's a bit crowded, but changes are always in the works, as in nature.

Here is a link that might be useful: Jurassic Park

'Golden Showers' on the left?

On a different scale, here is a combo of a Giant Sequoia and a Cedar of Lebanon. I pass them twice a day, during my commute.

The two are about 70 yards (meters) apart, on a south-facing slope, on the gigantic lawn in front of the national HQ of Daimler-Chrysler.

Bigoudee

Golden Showers, it is! You sure know your plants Bboy. You got that 'Marisii' right too. (Did I spell that right?)

Where in France is that bigoudee? I traveled the length of France in the summer of 2000 on a train with almost two weeks in Paris. Loved it even though I don't speak French.

'Mariesii'. What's the blue one behind?

It's a Blue China Fir. Cunninghamia lanceolata, 'Glauca'. They're a bit messy. I haven't figured out a groundcover that will 'eat' the branchlets they drop. The largest I've seen is one at Whitney's Nursery in Brinnon, Wa.

The trees are located at
(48 deg 50 min 10 sec N, 2 deg 06 min 52 sec E),
which is about 16 km (10 miles) due W of the
center of Paris. On Google Earth, you can see
the long shadow of the Sequoia, and the 30-meter
diameter drip zone of the Cedar.

Bigoudee

>It's a Blue China Fir. Cunninghamia lanceolata, 'Glauca'Are you sure? Really looks like the tree in above view is another Chamaecyparis lawsoniana cultivar.

10 years ago the state champion blue China fir was one at 14048 Palatine Ave N in Seattle. In 1995 it was 51 ft. x 4 ft. 7 in. Recently another at 8009 18th Ave NE was found to be 74 1/2 ft. tall. And a forking one at Bloedel Hall, on the UW campus is now over 56 ft. high as well.

Ron, you are right again! That is a Lawson cultivar. A Blue China Fir is directly opposite and I somehow got turned around when looking at the picture, in my own yard no less! It's a jungle out there. lol Thank you for the correction. I don't know the cultivar name as it was obtained from a cutting I took from a tree I spotted as the bluest I had ever seen. I have another blue cultivar, but all the cuttings grow up and fall over. They don't die, they just fall over. One fell over and now I'm making a hedge out of it because the branches are growing upright. Time for a new thread on Chamaecyparis lawsoniana.

In pots too long before planting out?

Could be. it's been a long time since they were planted. I have cut down, off, almost all of them now.