AOL: Birch trees can make a beautiful addition to your landscape this season
Few shade trees are as distinctive in the home landscape as birch trees. Their unique bark characteristics, distinctive growth form and graceful delicate foliage are reason alone to feature one or ...
Birch trees can make a beautiful addition to your landscape this season
Mid-winter is my favorite time to harvest birch for sweet-flavored food and warming beverages. Birch trees are easy to identify in winter thanks to their distinctive bark. The bark is an eye-catching ...
TreeHugger: River Birch Are a Favored Yard Tree in the Southern U.S.
Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. River birch has been called "the most beautiful of American trees" by Prince ...
Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its distinctive white bark. The scientific name Betula papyrifera speaks to ...
Birds & Blooms on MSN: River Birch Tree Care and Growing Tips
Many ornamental trees are valued for their spring flowers or fall foliage, but they offer little aesthetic value during the winter. Not the river birch tree. The river birch’s beautiful bark offers ...
Got a birch tree that doesn’t look too healthy after our long, dry summer? You aren’t alone. Both European white birch and river birch are popular landscape trees in the Inland Northwest. However, ...
Borers have been attacking my two birch trees this year. Our arborist says this problem is pretty wide spread in the Portland/Vancouver areas this year. How can I control this pest? Attacks of the ...