Q: I purchased a piece of land last year with three silver birch trees on it. The largest is about 30 feet tall and had a low branch removed many years ago. The inside of the stub rotted and was ...

THE elegant silver birch tree in my back garden helps define the changing seasons. Nut and seed-filled feeders currently hang from its leafless pendulous boughs, providing sustenance for wild birds ...

Bill Blackledge's advice on how to care for Silver Birch trees... Warton's Bill Blackledge is one of the county's most popular and sought after gardeners. If it's green and needs watering, Bill can ...

IT TOOK 40 years to grow and just 40 minutes to come down. Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood shimmied up this silver birch with spikes on his feet to fell the tree last Wednesday. In its place ...

A recent report in the scientific journal Nature Genetics 49: 904–12 (May 2017), doi:10.1038/ng.3862, disclosed the results of genomic DNA sequencing and analysis of Betula pendula, the silver birch ...

A new study sequences the genomes of 80 silver birch trees, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value for papermaking, construction, furniture-building and more.

ANGRY homeowners can’t believe their street’s 80-year-old trees have been butchered. Residents living in Arcadian Gardens in Hadleigh, were aghast when tree surgeons hacked back more than three metres ...

Almost a quarter of people questioned for the were also unaware "mighty oaks from little acorns grow" and less than two fifths knew conkers came from horse chestnuts. People also have difficulty ...

Contractors carrying out work on one of Wakefield’s busiest roundabouts have been criticised after a group of healthy trees was wrongly axed. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire ...