Q: My European white birch trees are more than 25 years old and look like they are dying. I did have them trimmed a few years ago and ground cover is growing at the base of their trunks. If I pull ...

Betula pendula, commonly known as the European white birch, silver birch or European weeping birch, is a member of the Betulaceae family (closely related to the beech and oak family). The name for ...

Paper birch certainly lends itself to comparisons with paper; the bark is smooth and white and flammable. This whiteness, it turns out, is key to the ability of the birch to survive extreme cold.

Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of it… Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013.

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White birches are considered short-lived trees. Few live longer than 120 years or so in the best locations. In an urban or suburban situation, 40 years is a long life for a birch.

And, of course, there are plenty of European white birch (Betula papyrifera) planted in Southern California, although their lifespan in our dry environment, which is antithetical to their habitat ...

Betula pendula, European white birch, is the white trunk tree with interesting bark so commonly seen. This tree is a greedy consumer of water. Birch trees are susceptible to aphids that drip ...

European White Birch. ... 04/19/2011 Share . i’ll be planting a 3 tree Euro Birch stand above ground on a SW facing deck in Greenpoint, soon. any tips for this? i will also include a few low shrubs in ...

In the forest, birch trees thrive in cool, ... * European White Birch (Betula pendula) -- Widely planted as an ornamental because of its lovely weeping habit and chalk-white bark, ...

Q: In the spring of 1986 we planted a European weeping white birch in the middle of our rose garden. It was looking great until about two months ago when it started looking paler and paler. All ...

Here are local tree experts’ picks of the best birches for the Chicago area: – Gray birch (Betula populifolia) is a useful white-barked alternative to the not-very-successful white birch ...