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 ...

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 ...

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I grew up with birch trees just outside the window. They jutted from the remains of a turn-of-the-century rockery, which separated the drive from the lawn. When we arrived in the 1970s, the garden had ...

Wall-grown peach and nectarine trees need to be protected from leaf curl, a disfiguring fungal disease. It's caused by the Taphrina deformans fungus, which is carried in rain and causes severe ...

A good wash and brush up is not something that need be reserved for gentlemen in those early 20th-century films and novels where Brylcreem was de rigeur and a pair of whalebone hairbrushes were ...

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 ...