Even though I am sure I have seen these all my life, I don’t remember ever noticing the actual seeds of birch trees until relatively recently. This is one of those things that is so easy to overlook, ...

While you’re able to cultivate and farm certain plants, Birch trees sadly aren’t one of them. Only Beech Trees are able to be planted and cultivated. Of course, there are Ancient Seeds, too, but those ...

Q. I have a clump birch that was planted in 1991. It has grown beautifully until this year. Long "seed worms" developed on two trunks, then shriveled up and now there are dead leaves on some of the ...

FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks area is experiencing its annual melt-off this month, but the typical sight of dirty snow has been accentuated with a distinctive shade of rusty brown. The culprit is a ...

Why, a friend asked, are there so many birch seeds on top of the snowpack in Fairbanks? A day later, the answer hit me in the head. As I walked through the forest, I looked up just in time to get ...

Many ornamental trees are valued for their spring flowers or fall foliage, but they offer little aesthetic value during the ...

Betula pubescens, commonly known as: downy birch, moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch. Seed germinated super fast that was nice. I never really know when to end these ...

Seeds have been collected from dwarf birch trees near Loch Ness as part of the UK National Tree Seed Project. They will be stored in the underground vaults of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew's ...