Mid-winter is my favorite time to harvest birch for sweet-flavored food and warming beverages. Birch trees are easy to identify in winter thanks to their distinctive bark. The bark is an eye-catching ...

Thieves are illegally cutting down thousands of birch trees in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin to make a quick buck off city dwellers who love the paper-white logs, limbs and twigs in their home ...

There are plenty of twigs about after the recent storms to help anyone keen to learn a bit more about how to identify the tree species of Sheffield. Botanist Gerry Firkins, from Sorby Natural History ...

A birch tree is a joy for any autumn garden as winter hibernation sets in. The tree’s broad, open habit is a graceful feature with its pendulous stems and branches elegantly cascading downwards. At ...

At first I thought those hundreds of rolled-up leaves on the two old birches holding the hammock were catkins, those long, thin flowers we see in the spring. Of course, that was easy to think with a ...