Betula pendula
Multi-stem Birch

Description

Features:
✓ Medium-sized tree up to 20m
✓ Elegant, drooping branches with light, airy leaves
✓ White bark that sheds like tissue paper
✓ Leaves turn yellow in autumn before falling

Common, native, quick-growing, medium-sized deciduous tree with green leaves changing to yellow in Autumn before falling. Male and female catkins are produced in Spring before the leaves. It can be planted in damp situations, though for wetter areas Downy birch (Betula pubescens) would be a better choice. Suitable for most soils.

Don't forget to consider:
Tree Stakes to support the tree - buy here.
Tree Belting to secure the tree to the stake supports - buy here.
Tree and Shrub Compost to add a layer of good soil in the planting hole - buy here.
Mycorrhizal fungi to encourage strong, new roots - buy here.