Betula - silver birch

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Elegant, airy, slender tree with pearly-white bark and delicate apple-green leaves that turn to a shower of gold in autumn. You can see why it's such a beloved tree! It's also a tree of northern and central European snow-covered forests, so it's very cold hardy for snowfield and southern locations. Lovely in cool-climate gardens.

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Description

Betula pendula - silver birch

APPEARANCE : Deciduous slender tree with white striped bark when trees are mature; draping, slightly weeping, branches (hence 'pendula'); small candle-flame-shaped light green leaves which turn yellow in autumn; small yellow catkins in winter-spring.
USE FOR : Feature and specimen planting, for the ornamental bark, shade tree.
LOCATION: Sun or shade; grows in soil of almost any type though happiest in slightly alkaline or chalk soils. Prefers cold winters and a generally cooler climate with regular rainfall or water. Cold-hardy to Antarctic temperatures.
CARE : Mulch and water well for up to 12 weeks or until the plant is established, and in dry spells.
HEIGHT & WIDTH : 9 - 12 m H x 4-5 m W
YOUR PLANTS : These are tubestock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide. You can see an example in the image gallery

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