Bring Back the Birch.

When we moved here a little over six years ago , to my delight there was a little orchard of mature birch trees at the bottom of the garden . Alas , I recall they were a little too mature and already showing sign of senile decay . Most long time we have fall back at least one . Last yr we were down to seven trees as you see in the photo below . Now after tempest Doris we are down to just five .

The tree diagram have nester in spring . Some years gloomy tits draw close here . I find out them rap away custom-make the hole .

Birch tree do n’t live a long time but it does n’t help if they get too near to the balefire , as you’re able to see the next one is scorch . To be fair , the bonfire incur too penny-pinching to the tree diagram . I am looking at you , dear Pianist , Jehovah of big balefire . woodpecker find the bark full of tasty morsels . you’re able to see where they have been drilling . In summer we get flights of fiddling foresighted dog tits chattering aside as they expect for seed . in reality , I just found out that the collective name for a mathematical group of long tailed knocker is a ‘ zephyr ’ . Sometimes we get Carduelis spinus too . The pretty toadstoolAmaninta muscaria ; Fly Agaric appears labialise the antecedent of the trees in autumn some yr for any passing elves to enjoy .

Betula albo-sinensis septrionalis

In an ideal world I would love to have a woodlet of birch tree like the unmatchable one at Anglesey Abbey below .

Would n’t it be wonderful ? I ca n’t aspire to this , but I ca n’t bear to be without birch tree trees and so I settle to buy some young ones . evidently not quite as many as in the exposure above . I was lucky to find them at a reasonable price at a tree sweeping nursery . They were the last of the bare rootBetula jacquemontiiand so they were half price . £ 12.50 ! There were only five of them but it is a head start , I hope to get some more in the fall .

As they mature they will get lovely milk- livid bark . There are several beautiful loanblend of the Himalayan White Birch , Betula jacquemontii . ‘Silver Shadow ’ , ‘ Jermyns ’ and ‘ Grayswood Ghost ’ are all stunning . But I am quite happy with my ordinary ones . When they maturate they will gradually become snowy -white ghost trees . Some of the lower branches need to derive off , but I shall have to wait until fall now . If you cut birch in spring or summertime , they run sap . As the tree matures , slice of papery bark flow loosely from the trunk . I read you should n’t peel them , but sometimes it is quite impossible to resist .

Betula albo-sinensis septrionalis

There are other gorgeous birch as well as the snowfall clean ace , although the mere outline ofBetula jacquemontiiagainst a dismal sky in March takes a lot of trouncing .

I love the buff colouredBetula ermaniitoo . age ago at the Cambridge Botanical garden I fell for this awe-inspiring specimen ofBetula albo - sinensis septentrionaliswhich is a gorgeous mixture of coppery pinkish , red , buff and orange . I love it so much that I have implant one in my winter garden . To get a multi- stemmed Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree like this , you have to be very audacious and chop up your new tree down . I have n’t the bravery for this . you may get a similar effect by planting two tree in one hollow . Or you’re able to bribe them already prepare as multi - stemmed trees but they are very expensive .

Betula albo - sinensis septrionalis

Another ripe birch tree in my garden is a lovely specimen of the warty treeBetulapendula . The synomyn of this tree diagram isBetula verrucosa . I have show up you my wart tree before but here it is again .

Betula pendulain summer ( Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on the right . )

Before I moved here I used to have a lovely group of birch and every class I scrubbed them to get rid of the alga . It ’s best to do this when there is nobody about ; if hoi polloi catch you doing it , they give you funny flavour , specially if your kitchen floor is less than pristine . I planted these trees in a circuit and eventually their branches joined together . I had no plants in the round , just gravel and in the middle there was a huge Harlan Fisk Stone to pose on .

Here , I will plant them quite close together like the ones at Anglesey Abbey . I might underplant them with pure whiteNarcissus‘Thalia ’ perhaps I will even risk chopping one down in the Hope of vex a multi - stemmed tree .

There is a Chinese saying ; ‘ The honest sentence to implant trees is twenty years ago . The secondbest time is now ’ . So I had well get go .

27 Responses toBring Back the Birch.

Oh , a birch grove – how endearing ! Several birch tree species are common here in my part of northern North America , too . They add such charm to a landscape . Your Betula pendula is striking ! Now I will reckon you scrub the barque . 😉

Your situation is a rattling ode to the birch tree . What a lucky discovery to blame up 5 tree at such a reasonable Leontyne Price ! I plant 3 noID birch in the comparatively midget backyard of our former business firm , setting them close to one another in the hope that would ascertain their size . A vine strangled one in infancy ( my fault ) and , when the other 2 began to get really big , we were forced to remove one . My tree - hat neighbour prevented me from even think planting any in my “ new ” garden .

Love the statute title ! I also have it away birches , and en masse they are even good . Your new trees appear like good specimens and so cheap , I am certain you will be very happy together .

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Bring Back the Birch.