The highlights
- Elegant silver bark and gracefully weeping branches
- A tall, slender tree that’s suitable for even small and urban gardens
- Supports 300+ insect species, birds, mammals and fungi
- RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
Description
- One of our most iconic native trees, Silver Birch makes an impact in any garden with its elegant silver-white bark and gracefully weeping branches
- The silver bark sheds its layers like paper, developing contrasting dark fissures and cracks with age that make each tree unique
- Silver Birch trees support over 300 insect species as well as moths and many diverse fungi. Hole-nesting birds such as woodpeckers make their homes in the trunk
- Bright green serrated edged leaves form a light, airy canopy which allows for underplanting, turning golden yellow in autumn
- Yellow and green catkins appear in April and May, hanging in clusters like lambs’ tails. Their seeds are enjoyed by birds including Siskins, Greenfinches & Redpolls
- Silver Birch improves your soil – it spreads its roots wide, bringing otherwise inaccessible nutrients into the tree. These are then transferred into the soil by falling leaves.
- In Celtic folklore, Silver Birch symbolises renewal, and bundles of its twigs were used to drive out the spirits of the old year.
- Our potted trees are supplied in EcoPots™. Eco pots use 70% less plastic and are fully recyclable, unlike normal single use pots. They flex and so produce less root spiralling and travel better in the post.
- Our trees are usually between 18 and 36 months old at the time of dispatch.
- Our trees are professionally pruned before dispatching. This formative pruning can involve cutting the main leader, if the expert tree growers decide this will produce a better shaped tree. This can stop the tree becoming “leggy”, and promote stronger, bushier growth.MORE
