 | | | Trees for Wet Ground: Silver Birch (Betula pendula) Silver Birch is a pretty and valuable fast growing tree, although only living for up to 80 years. Like Downy Birch, it supports over a hundred insect species and its massive numbers of seeds attract birds, including the rare Lesser Redpoll and the Mealy Redpoll. It prefers full sun, typically of a pioneer species. Its graceful silver limbs hold small leaves, which give dappled shade and yellow in the autumn.
The huge birch and pine forest in the Highlands following the last Ice Age has now disappeared, but Silver Birch is still widely distributed in Britain. It is a rapid and efficient colonizer of open sites on acidic soils, and still coppiced for besoms and brushwood horse jumps.
Provenance certificates are available on request for the smaller size Silver Birch trees, which are from the Southwest of England.
Smaller Sizes Supplier: Perrie Hale Forest Nursery
Standards Supplier: Ashridge Trees
50% of our profit on sales of Birch trees is donated to our Special Projects
| Size/Quantity | 1+ | 25+ | 500+ | | 40/60 cm | £1.85 | £0.80 | £0.50 | | 60/90 cm | £2.30 | £1.65 | £0.70 | | 90/120 cm | £3.60 | £1.85 | £0.90 | | | 1+ | 3+ | | | | | 6/8 std | £51 | £46 | | | | | 8/10 std | £56 | £51 | | | | | 10/12 std | £66 | £61 | | | |
Prices include VAT and delivery to mainland UK. Orders over £100 qualify for a bulk discount.
See our planting and size guide for details and tips on planting. These trees are all bare root, and are consequently available for delivery from November until March ( please ask if you are interested in pot grown plants). During the lifting season there may be up to two week’s delay between placing the order and dispatching, due to weather conditions or pressure of orders, which are dealt with in date sequence. Orders placed between March and September are confirmed in September ready for dispatch from November.
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