Using Birches in the Landscape
Spring is a popular time to think about adding shade trees to the home landscape. Among the popular choices are birches, which may or may not be a good fit for northern Illinois landscapes. Proper selection, location, and care are needed to ... [... more]
University of Illinois Extension |
How to Do a Leaf Rubbing
Leaf rubbings allow you to preserve fleeting bits of nature for fun or as art. Find some interesting leaves. Ferns, oaks, maples and birches work well. Avoid pines or anything that is not fairly flat and smooth. Cover the leaf with tracing paper ... [... more]
eHow |
White Birches
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Buy.com |
Betula nigra
Easily grown average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. River birch is perhaps the most culturally adaptable and heat tolerant of the birches. Prefers moist, acidic, fertile soils including semi-aquatic conditions, but also tolerates ... [... more]
Missouri Botanical Garden |
Best Birches for the South
White-bark birches, such as paper birch (Betula papyrifera) and European white birch (B. pendula), are popular landscape plants in the North, but not widely grown in the South. Southern gardeners desirous of growing these white-bark birches often ... [... more]
National Gardening Association |
County of Birches
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Amazon.com |
Birch Skeletonizer
Principal host is white birch, but other native and exotic birches may be attacked. Look for late season browning of foliage and premature leaf drop. By mid-summer, narrow, serpentine mines are visible and white silken molting webs may be found ... [... more]
Forest Pests |
Why Birches Are White
Why Birches Are White reveals the power of a glance, a touch, and a kiss to change profoundly the orderly, predictable lives of an American man and a Russian woman. It is a love story written on two different canvasses: a realistic, insightful black and [... more]
$12.86
A1 Books |
Betula nigra
Birch Family, being highly resistant to the Bronze Birch Borer and basically trouble-free of most of the diseases and pests which plague other Birches River Birch is somewhat sensitive to being transplanted in Autumn, and care should be taken to ... [... more]
H&CS |
9 X 12 LTP-Wolf Among Birches
Features: Dimensions Learn to Paint Wolf Among Birches - 91325 DMS Wolf Among Birches: Sad as it sounds, I quite enjoy paint by numbers. They're easy, I don't have to sit and think, and in this case in particular, the picture was EXACTLY like the front [... more]
$7.99
Amazon.com |
Bronze Birch Borer
White, cutleaf and yellow birch are preferred but other birches are also attacked. Look for top dieback, with first symptoms including sparse, chlorotic foliage. Welts appear on the surface of the stem above borer galleries (a). Adult emergence ... [... more]
Forest Pests |
White Birches Aulanko National Park Finland
White Birches Aulanko National Park Finland [... more]
$79.00
Great Big Canvas |
