People love their chalky white birch trees. Unfortunately, so does a tiny insect that causes big problems. Only a half-inch long as an adult, the bronze birch borer started establishing itself in the ...

My white birch tree, which is about 40 years old, suddenly looks bad. Within a few days I noticed that a whole bunch of leaves had fallen off; one branch is completely bare. Also, all the other leaves ...

My birch tree has developed a yellowish color to the leaves. It also has been dropping a lot of brown leaves over the last couple of weeks. Are these two problems connected? What is wrong, and what ...

Q: Can you help me figure out what’s likely going on with this river birch tree? The tree has been dropping leaves incessantly since about April/May, hundreds per day. Should this tree be dropping its ...

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 ...

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 ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...

"…I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and ...

SARANAC LAKE — “Birch, Birch, Birch” is the themed exhibit for the month of May at the Adirondack Artists Guild in Saranac Lake. The Birch tree is notable for its striking white bark and is often ...