Betula utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Tickle Creek’
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Comments (12)are the others recommended susceptible to borer ... whitespire is said to be resistant ... link below i mail ordered 3 foot whips about 6 years ago ... and they are topping 20 feet min ... you do need to be pretty proactive in pruning them up.. as they have a weeping habit ... i got them from either guerney or henry fields or stark brothers [though i doubt this one[ .... they are on the right side of the pic.. 3 of the 4 ... spaced about 6 by 4 feet apart .... and they are still leaning... but i dont have any structure for them to fall on.. so i dont care ... your biggest concern.. over time is whether birch are an acceptable tree to have hanging over the mobile homes ... and i question such.. they are not the strongest of trees ... but not close the the worst ... down in mansfield OH ... is a great tree farm.. where i got 6 to 8 foot bare root oaks in april .... oaks.. once established... can grow 3 to 5 feet per year.. and have a tendency to not shed branches like some other stock ... the initial investment would probably be higher .. but they will be there.. when the homes rot into the ground ... or about 200 years ... the birch will not be ... in the pic.. there is one of the oaks on the left.. hard to see ... but it was planted at the same time.. nearly .... as the birch .... is taller.. and the trunk is thicker .... it appears to be next to the green conica in front of the blue spruce ... not the larger behind .. nor the giant way behind ... if you want a referral .. email me directly ... per my page ... i am hosta friends with the owners .... with no vested interest in the biz .... ken Here is a link that might be useful: link...See Morewhite barked birches
Comments (17)midwest jeff, don't give up on the white birch trees, I was told that white birc trees would never grow in Louisiana, however I have had one for five years now growing just fine. It is a cutleaf white birch that I ordered from forestfarm and it is growing here in the hot humid south. However I do water it at least once a week whether we had rain or not, it is planted on the north side of my house, so the roots stay a little cooler, and have a lot of mulch around it, so just keep trying with them. When I lived in Minnesota I had a lot cutleaf white birch trees and not a single one of them died from BBB, you just have to give them a little more special attention, also plant birch trees on the north and east sides of your home, they seem to do a lot better....See MoreWhat Type of Tree is This?
Comments (27)Clump form from a commercial grower is several planted close together. Over time this backfires unless the combination if planted where side shade keeps it vertical, otherwise the trunks lean away from one another. The low forking seen in these pictures is do to site conditions - and noticed how the second tree is just like the one asked about, except for the clearly visible black areas. And that the bark is white until it gets old enough to be partly black, this is typical for B. pendula. At first there is some brown, then mostly white with small black areas, followed by large black areas once enough time has elapsed. The tree first asked about probably has a little black on it that we can't see in the photo used....See MoreBest Birch for Northwest? Other tree options?
Comments (11)For a pretty good list (you wouldn't be using the UK suppliers listed, of course, and not all of the Himalayan birch cultivars are likely to be available stateside)... Note that if you "Click on a plant name entry to see its details in the RHS Horticultural Database" and then click on 'The Award of Garden Merit' on that second page, a third page opens with a basic description of the plant, for example "Medium-sized deciduous tree, slender and open in habit, bark peeling, pinkish to coppery red-brown, with white bloom. Leaves oval, strongly toothed, turning yellow in autumn. Flowers in brown catkins" for B. albosinensis. Here is a link that might be useful: RHS Plant Finder Search Results...See MoreEmbothrium
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