With their slender and graceful form, delicate, often arching branches, and papery bark, birches amp up a landscape’s appeal. There are about 50 species in the birch genus Betula. Birches are native ...

Dear Master Gardener: We would like to plant a large shade tree with beautiful fall color to add to our landscape. Is a yellow birch a good choice? The bark on yellow birch is yellow-gray to ...

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 ...

Trees can provide shade for decades or even centuries in your garden. But maybe you aren't patient enough to wait a decade to ...

White birch (also called paper birch or canoe birch) is probably the most common of our birches. They can grow 50 to 70 feet tall in the wild, but most are not that large; the national champion ...

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