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 ...

Last summer the leaves on one of my garden’s young silver birch trees started to go yellow, and then it died. Until then it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fast-growing, water-loving Betula nigra is a good shade tree in half the time The river birch (Betula nigra) is a fast-growing ...

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 ...

Q: We moved to a property where there are many shallow, large roots spreading out from a mature tree in the lawn, and the roots have holes in a few places. Should we fill them in to prevent rot? A: ...