Can Western Hemlock Survive Or Thrive In Southern New England?

I live in eastern Massachusetts. Would like to plant Western Hemlock. Would it survive at all? Would it thrive here. I believe I am in zone 6, close to zone 5, about five miles from the coast.

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#1 Comment By GKH_Susan On 11/02/2022 @ 3:24 pm

You may want to consider a hemlock that is resistant to the pest Hemlock Woolly Adelgid such as the Chinese hemlock.

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/42418/chinese-hemlock-factsheet-NYSIPM.pdf;sequence=1 ^[1]
https://harvardforest1.fas.harvard.edu/sites/harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/files/publications/pdfs/orwig_Sierran_2008.pdf ^[2]
https://arboretum.harvard.edu/collections/hemlock-hill/ ^[3]
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/tsuga-heterophylla/ ^[4]

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[1] https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/42418/chinese-hemlock-factsheet-NYSIPM.pdf;sequence=1: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/42418/chinese-hemlock-factsheet-NYSIPM.pdf;sequence=1

[2] https://harvardforest1.fas.harvard.edu/sites/harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/files/publications/pdfs/orwig_Sierran_2008.pdf: https://harvardforest1.fas.harvard.edu/sites/harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/files/publications/pdfs/orwig_Sierran_2008.pdf

[3] https://arboretum.harvard.edu/collections/hemlock-hill/: https://arboretum.harvard.edu/collections/hemlock-hill/

[4] https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/tsuga-heterophylla/: https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/tsuga-heterophylla/

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