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Dry woodlands, downs and heaths
- Silver birch is a popular garden tree and often hybridises with our other native birch, the downy birch, Betula pubescens, which is more common in Scotland. Tolerant of a range of temperatures, it grows as far south as Spain and as far north as Lapland. It thrives in dry woodlands, downs and heaths. When mature these trees can reach 30m in height.
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Where to find silver birch. Silver birch is a popular garden tree and often hybridises with our other native birch, the downy birch, Betula pubescens, which is more common in Scotland. Tolerant of a range of temperatures, it grows as far south as Spain and as far north as Lapland.
Jan 30, 2024 · Where to plant silver birch. Himalayan birch planted in a mixed border. Paul Debois. This versatile tree suits a wide range of locations: it's well-suited to growing in a border, in grass, in a woodland garden, in a line as a garden boundary or as single specimen trees in a hedgerow.
The Silver birch has 'drooping' branches and triangular leaves, with jagged teeth that grow from hairless leaf stalks. The leaves of the similar Downy Birch grow from hairy stalks and more rounded; it also has more upright branches.
silver birch. Elegant, narrowly conical, deciduous tree up to 25m in height, with slender drooping twigs. Peeling white bark, becomes black and rugged at the base. Diamond-shaped, toothed, mid-green leaves, turn yellow in autumn. Flowers in catkins are yellow-brown and appear in early spring.
Silver birch is known as a 'pioneer' species great for establishing new woodland. A hardy tree, and deep rooting, it can act as a 'nurse' tree in mixed woodlands to protect other more delicate young trees as they grow and draw up nutrients from deep in the soil.
The silver or common birch, Betula pendula, is a fantastic tree, grown for its silver-white bark, spring catkins and pretty yellow autumn foliage. It's a medium-sized, deciduous tree and is a British native.
The silver birch grows naturally from western Europe eastwards to Kazakhstan, the Sakha Republic in Siberia, Mongolia, and the Xinjiang province in China, and southwards to the mountains of the Caucasus and northern Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. It is also native to northern Morocco and has become naturalised in some other parts of the world. [9] .
