Betula pendula Julia Child As the name would suggest

As the name would suggest

full-petalled flowers

The soil should be moist and well-drained

which are often a variety of different colours

Betula pendula Julia Child As the name would suggestFeatured in a famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Silver Birch is a tall and elegantly graceful tree. I pass forth into light I find myself beneath a weeping birch most beautiful of forest trees, the Lady of the Woods. Betula pendula grows upright and offers smaller branches that become pendulous with age. Despite its elegant look, it is a tough pioneer species that will grow in both icy cold and warm climates. The tree features diamond shaped