Silver Birch is a striking, deciduous plant which forms stunning, elegant, drooping branches and distinct silver-like bark- always fantastic in a native hedging scheme!
Silver Birch produces white bark and smooth twigs with little, dark warts speckled all over. Two key things to look out for in Silver Birch are its triangular shaped, bright green leaves, and year-round, unique, silvery bark.
Betula Pendula also produces male + female catkins throughout April-May. Male catkins will appear long, with a yellowy-brown colour, hanging in groups of 2-4. Female catkins, on the other hand, are much smaller and shorted, showing in shades of bright green. After the female catkins have successfully pollinated, they will change to a darker, crimson colour, where masses of tiny seeds are produced during Autumn and scatter by the wind.
Silver Birch can reach up to 30m high in good conditions, but when looking for a hedge, you will need to maintain it at a much lower height than this.
Prune your Silver Birch plant near the end of Winter or beginning of Spring, if necessary. All you will need to do is remove any diseased, dead, crossing, damaged, or congested shoots- those that are growing out of the desired shape can also be pruned out. You will not need to carry out a pruning routine.
We do recommend adding some mulch feed, however, after pruning. This will maintain overall health.
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Silver Birch is a striking, deciduous plant which forms stunning, elegant, drooping branches and distinct silver-like bark- always fantastic in a native hedging scheme!
Silver Birch produces white bark and smooth twigs with little, dark warts speckled all over. Two key things to look out for in Silver Birch are its triangular shaped, bright green leaves, and year-round, unique, silvery bark.
Betula Pendula also produces male + female catkins throughout April-May. Male catkins will appear long, with a yellowy-brown colour, hanging in groups of 2-4. Female catkins, on the other hand, are much smaller and shorted, showing in shades of bright green. After the female catkins have successfully pollinated, they will change to a darker, crimson colour, where masses of tiny seeds are produced during Autumn and scatter by the wind.
Silver Birch can reach up to 30m high in good conditions, but when looking for a hedge, you will need to maintain it at a much lower height than this.
Prune your Silver Birch plant near the end of Winter or beginning of Spring, if necessary. All you will need to do is remove any diseased, dead, crossing, damaged, or congested shoots- those that are growing out of the desired shape can also be pruned out. You will not need to carry out a pruning routine.
We do recommend adding some mulch feed, however, after pruning. This will maintain overall health.
Field grown, bare roots are young plants that are only planted when they are dormant, from autumn to spring. We lift bare root plants and despatch them during the season but they can be pre-ordered in summer. As they are cheaper to grow, they are one of our most affordable hedge planting options.
Pot grown plants can be planted year round and make a convenient option. They come in a wide range of sizes, from 10cm to 2.5m so they're suitable for the majority of planting requirements.
Also field grown, root ball plants are scooped out of the ground using machinery to keep their root system intact and wrapped in bio-degradable, hessian sacks. They are mature plants that provide dense coverage very early on, ideal for when you need a thick hedge quickly.
Grown in troughs or bags that measure 50cm-1 metre in length and carefully clipped during the growing season. Our instant hegding troughs create a dramatic, instant hedge effect.
Our bare root discount deals include bundles of 50, 100, and 250 plants. The bigger the bundle, the higher the discount.
