But for once-boreal creatures such as myself, the absence of the white birch is always felt and especially in winter ... ancient and modern, Old World and New. As the trees died over the years ...

very old Indo-European tree word, its root bherja means that birch ... winter days, and so avoids the damage caused by rapid heating and cooling. What causes this extreme whiteness? That white ...

Winter identification can be challenging for the paper birch. The most obvious way is the white, fairly smooth bark. Here’s the glitch, though. Old trunks become blacker and have grooves. The white ...

But for once-boreal creatures such as myself, the absence of the white birch is always felt and especially in winter ... ancient and modern, Old World and New. As the trees died over the years ...

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.

A blanket of snow provides an enchanting backdrop to admire the slumbering forms of towering old-growth trees. Below we visit three of these impressive giants at the height of winter. When winter ...

Inside a plot of poplar and birch trees on the old farm field was a young woman ... Some are bright green, some brown, some white and some blue. She wants to find out why they are different.

Birch trees do not want extensive, regular pruning. Indeed, they prefer small-scale pruning, which is required during their ...

Q: I have a 10-year-old white birch ... conventional tree for shade there, you're probably best off removing it and starting over. Birch are fairly breakage-prone in storms, by the way.

SARANAC LAKE — “Birch, Birch, Birch” is the themed exhibit for the month of May at the Adirondack Artists Guild in Saranac Lake. The Birch tree is notable for its striking white bark and is ...

Brazen thieves armed with axes and chainsaws are plundering parks, forests and private land in Wisconsin's Northwoods. Their prey? White birch trees. Thousands of trees have disappeared since ...