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 ...

IT TOOK 40 years to grow and just 40 minutes to come down. Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood shimmied up this silver birch with spikes on his feet to fell the tree last Wednesday. In its place ...

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 ...

Tania Morgan loves nature and the great outdoors. But she is looking forward to the day when she comes home from work and finds the large silver birch tree on the grass verge outside her house gone.

Silver Birch Sue is one of the trees which do bleed profusely if they are pruned when actively growing and you would be far better pruning during late autumn when the tree is becoming dormant.

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 ...

ANGRY homeowners can’t believe their street’s 80-year-old trees have been butchered. Residents living in Arcadian Gardens in Hadleigh, were aghast when tree surgeons hacked back more than three metres ...

Silver birch trees could be for the chop in Christchurch, if residents can prove they're making them ill. A Christchurch City Council committee will today consider whether the council should pay to ...