The native birch species are good for bigger gardens but the coloured bark varieties can be deployed almost anywhere ...

The Silver Birch is one of Britain’s most distinctive trees. Learn the key facts and identification tips that make it easy to ...

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.

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...

A SILVER birch tree has been planted in Bridgend to mark 25 years of a charity. Carwyn Jones AM joined the managing director of The Shaw Trust and staff from the Bridgend office to plant the tree in ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...

"If there’s a smell more intoxicating or inviting than silver birch, I don’t know what it could be." Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of ...