If you are looking for a tree with white bark for your garden or trying to identify a tree that you have recently seen, this page is designed to help. White-barked trees have an otherworldly beauty ...

Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...

Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its distinctive white bark. The scientific name Betula papyrifera speaks to ...

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 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 ...

DARIEN -- Most people walk past trees and plants every day without paying much attention to the biological diversity surrounding them. "A lot of people walk through, and all they see is a tree," said ...

Borers have been attacking my two birch trees this year. Our arborist says this problem is pretty wide spread in the Portland/Vancouver areas this year. How can I control this pest? Attacks of the ...

The smooth bark on a sycamore tree exfoliates to expose a mottled patchwork pattern of gray, brown and creamy white layers. In the lush green of summer, the bark of woody plants is barely noticeable.

correction A photo credit for an image in this story has been changed to John Michael Spencer. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, just after the snow melts but before flowers start to bud, Pat Bruderer, 67 ...