The top of my dead white birch tree toppled over. The cause was rotting. Folks also call this tree “canoe birch” and “silver birch.” The official name is “paper birch,” Betula papyrifera. It is very ...

Question: We have a white birch tree that appears to be dying from the top and then down. In fact, all the birch trees in our neighborhood have some dead branches at the top of the tree. The bottom ...

Shakes from white shoulders, green reluctant leaves. THE white birch of our northern woods seems to hold within its veins more of the elixir of ancient Pagandom than any other of our impulsive, ...