Looking to create a more secluded outdoor space? These are the trees to avoid that won't actually help screen your garden ...

Known as the state tree of New Hampshire, the paper birch (Betula papyrifera) is commonly referred to as a ‘poor man’s fire starter.’ The trees’ characteristic white papery bark is impossible to miss ...

This is common to sycamore, birch, and maple trees, to name a few species. In the paper birch trees, in particular, the layers peel away in horizontal, curly strips. Lenticels are pores that move ...

The paper birch tree can grow roughly 3 feet a year, to a maximum height of 65 feet with a canopy 25–35 feet wide. But the tree is most famous for its paper bark, which turns from brown to white ...

My mood improved when I spied something completely different: In addition to evergreens, the lot was selling 12- to 25-foot-tall paper birch trees (Betula papyrifera). They were dead, of course ...

Anyone who has this challenge will come to appreciate paper bark birch trees. The theme was pink hill cutouts with mirror like mica pockets and white bark forests. Frankly, I enjoyed the trip.

Birch trees can have very distinctive bark– probably everyone knows the iconic white peeling bark of a paper (aka white) birch or the thin, golden tendrils that peel off a yellow birch.

They got together Friday morning at the west end of the Mountain View Dog Park to plant three paper birch trees at 1925 Blaine St., Port Townsend. The trees, native to the Pacific Northwest, will add ...

Birch are the stuff legends are made of. We Canadians have high regard for birch trees because we cherish the stories of original Canadians who used birch bark to make canoes. Birch bark has also ...