The trees work their ancient cathartic magic ... a genuinely lovely moment in which the shadow of a baby redwood grows up the massive trunk of the set’s central realistically modeled showpiece ...

Semper Virens. Heartwood. A knotty growth of bark, the burls are filled with unspotted bud tissue—should a redwood tree fall, a burl can sprout a new tree. The burls, which fetch thousands of ...