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Sun shining on Silver Birch Tree


Sun shining on Silver Birch Tree

The colour is stunning with the sun shining late afternoon on this beautiful tree, not looking forward to the leaves dropping off though.



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it certainly looks stunning...

14 Nov, 2013

 

Thank you, I have used this one as my background screen on the computer it is so pretty. Love Silver Birch trees. It has never held onto its leaves for as long as this, we have only had two slight frosts this November so far. All helping the plants hang around that bit longer. :O)

14 Nov, 2013

 

:-) i nearly had a silver birch...but my friend could not deliver so i missed out :-((

15 Nov, 2013

 

this one is a self-set, it has been growing all the time I have been gardening, it was the tiniest wee thing you can imagine when I started gardening. The only thing I have done to it is lop off the lower branches to let the light into the border below. The oak trees do the same and I am forever pulling out little baby oak trees, think the squirrels plant the acorns and then forget where they have put them.

15 Nov, 2013

 

that's great! i keep looking for the signs of little oak trees growing when i walk to the shops...because i pass a row of them...i saw a young shoot once pushing its self up through the tarmac path...but could not pull it out with out damaging the roots...

its good that you can recognize these plants...you can pull up (as you say) no point in having a oak growing in the wrong place....

we should never run out of trees/plants with all those seeds ;-))

15 Nov, 2013

 

Glorious this time of the year ;0)

15 Nov, 2013

 

It has been an amazing Autumn, love all the colours it has created. :O)

15 Nov, 2013

 

My alltime favourite trees. :-)
Can't tell from the pic...is it Pendula or Pubescens?
Looks like the latter...more feathery to my mind and not so compact.

11 Jan, 2014

 

No idea Mouldy, sorry, it is self set from the wood, didn't know there were different ones. lol. It has been growing ever since I started gardening so a few years old now. I like them too, love the catkins how they hang and then the white bark, and then the colour they produce in autumn - yep lovely trees.

11 Jan, 2014

 

The pubescens tends to dangle, whereas, the pendula has a more upright form and denser foliage.

13 Jan, 2014

 

then think it is the pubescens type as it does dangle. Think I have seen the pendula type, as it used to be in the village where I was born, the leaves always turned inside out and as the saying went it always rained when they did that. lol.

13 Jan, 2014

 

Too,true, Olive.
There's a lot to be said for weather folklore.

14 Jan, 2014



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