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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study sequences the genomes of 80 silver birch trees, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value for papermaking, construction, furniture-building and more.

Contractors carrying out work on one of Wakefield’s busiest roundabouts have been criticised after a group of healthy trees was wrongly axed. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire ...

Sometimes a plant’s reputation is shaped by how humans utilise it. Take the poppy for example, topical at this time of year. The common field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) was adopted as the emblem of ...