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Eastern Hemlock Seeds In A Cup® Grow Kit

Tsuga canadensis

From the first seed to the next new leaf. Explore your plant’s growing conditions, seasonal rhythm, and everyday care.

THE PLANT NOTEBOOK

Eastern Hemlock care, from seed onward.

Prefers partial to full shade. Needs cool, moist, well-drained soil.

The Seeds In A Cup® kit keeps the high moisture levels hemlock seedlings require to survive their first summer.

By seed or cuttings.

Slow-growing and extremely shade-tolerant (can survive for a century in the understory).

Cool, moist valleys and north-facing slopes.

Highly shade tolerant; very sensitive to drought and heat.

Heavy threat from Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (invasive insect).

Safe; unlike the poisonous herb, this tree is non-toxic.

A graceful evergreen conifer with feathery foliage and a characteristically drooping leader (top).

‘Sargent’s Weeping’, ‘Gentsch White’.

timber once used for tanning leather (high tannin bark). highly valued ornamental for hedges

Eastern North America, from Canada to Georgia.

Threatened in many areas by HWA; breeding programs for resistance are active.

Named 'Hemlock' because its crushed needles smell like the unrelated poisonous herb (Conium).

State tree of Pennsylvania; the wood was famously used for build the early railway bridges in the NE.

TURN KNOWING INTO GROWING

There is no confirmed kit match for eastern hemlock in the current catalog. Explore the collection or ask us about this plant.

THE GROWING CONVERSATION

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