Jacquemont Birch: A rare, ornamental birch tree with smooth, unbelievably white bark, a shapely habit of growth and good fall colour; susceptible to insect attacks, somewhat particular about ...

Watering the birch during the fall to build up the water reserve is critical to their health. Turn your garden hose to a gentle trickle and place the hose at the base of the birch tree.

The ‘Chickadee’ paper birch (Betula papyrifera) has a columnar to pyramidal form, is hardy to Zone 2a, and grows to about 40 feet. The foliage turns to gold in fall, and its snow-white peeling ...

It appears this tree is very attractive to the bronze birch borer despite being proclaimed resistant to attack by these beetles. There is no ‘cure’ for this boring and aggressively feeding insect.

Deciduous trees shed their leaves before winter, but before they do, they turn from green to many spectacular colours in autumn – including various shades of yellows, oranges and reds. With fall ...

Growing Things: Replacing a beloved birch tree Q: We have a beloved 50-year-old weeping birch in our front yard. It has been slowly dying from the top down, and we will have to remove it this year.

Despite the benefits of fall planting, it is not for every kind of bare root tree or shrub. Among the few plants that do not take kindly to fall planting are red maple, birch, hawthorn, tuliptree ...