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 ...

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THE elegant silver birch tree in my back garden helps define the changing seasons. Nut and seed-filled feeders currently hang from its leafless pendulous boughs, providing sustenance for wild birds ...

Steve Nixon's silver birch trees after Housing New Zealand had their branches stripped while he was at work in August 2015. Photo: SUPPLIED / North-Shore-Times Auckland resident Steve Nixon believes ...

Bill Blackledge's advice on how to care for Silver Birch trees... Warton's Bill Blackledge is one of the county's most popular and sought after gardeners. If it's green and needs watering, Bill can ...

Almost a quarter of people questioned for the were also unaware "mighty oaks from little acorns grow" and less than two fifths knew conkers came from horse chestnuts. People also have difficulty ...

If you have quite a large root ball your Silver Birch may survive Anthony but as you say 30 feet is a very tall tree to transplant and I feel that firstly to give your Birch a chance of establishing ...

Yesterday a team of tree fellers travelled around Whanganui East pruning trees on the berms. Great job, but a very large silver birch on the corner of Burton Ave and Hackett St was obviously deemed to ...

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