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(Common Birch, European White Birch, Silver Birch, Trost's Dwarf European White Birch)
'Trost's Dwarf' is small in stature, featuring beautiful white, exfoliating bark and deeply-cut, thread-like leaves like other European white birches. Small greenish catkins appear in the spring and are quite eye-catching. A handsome small tree for use near water features, in the border, or in a container, 'Trost's Dwarf' unfortunately has a high suceptability to birch borer attack. Reduce the threat of attack by providing ample moisture and not planting it in hot, dry microclimates in the yard or...
Pride of Place Plants, Inc.
(European White Birch, White Edge Birch)
European white birch is a softly pyramidal tree when young, becoming more rounded at maturity with graceful arching branches. The cultivar 'White Edge' features beautiful white, exfoliating bark and creamy-margined, diamond-shaped,lacy leaves. Small greenish catkins appear in the spring and are quite eye-catching. The fall foliage is yellow.
European white birch is tolerant of both wet and dry soils in full sun. This handsome tree has been used extensively in the cool-climate park landscapes...
Jesse Saylor
(Common Birch, European White Birch, Silver Birch, Young's Weeping Birch)
Young's weeping birch's branches are slender and very pendulous without a leading stem. This is a medium-sized tree at maturity. Bark is brown on immature branches becoming white with black fissures as the tree grows. Pendulous flowers, called catkins, are notable in the spring on naked branches. Fall color is not dependable.
Young's weeping birch is beautiful as a specimen in a lawn or at the edge of woodlands, especially in front of dark evergreens. It's also beautiful along streams and ponds...
Jesse Saylor
(Asian White Birch)
Manchurian white birch is a medium-sized, conical, deciduous tree native to northeast Asia. In addition to its creamy-white bark, which provides year-round display, it features pale green leaves from late spring through summer, golden fall color, and tan catkins in early spring. Several cultivars of Manchurian birch are available. All favor full sun or light shade and reasonably fertile, well-drained soil. It works well as a specimen plant or in small groupings. It is resistant to the birch...
(Himalayan Birch)
Himalayan birch is a pyramidal, deciduous tree native from the Himalayas into southern China. A variable plant in height, habit, and bark color, it is best known for its variable white-barked selections, which provide year-round interest with their attractive, chalk-white bark. Throughout summer it has crisp, dark green leaves that turn yellow in fall. Himalayan birch prefers full sun or light shade and reasonably fertile, well-drained soil. In the landscape, it is best enjoyed as a specimen tree....
James H. Schutte
(Whitebarked Himalayan Birch)
White-barked Himalayan birch is a pyramidal, deciduous tree native from the Himalayas into southern China. Best known for its striking chalk-white bark, which provides year-round interest, it also features dark green leaves which turn yellow in fall. Several cultivars are available to include 'Grayswood Ghost', which has superior clean white bark and yellow fall color. Himalayan birch prefers full sun or light shade and reasonably fertile, well-drained soil. It works well as a specimen plant or in...
(Beggarticks, Pirate's Treasure Bidens)
Almost every child, puppy and kitten has carried and dispersed the seeds of Bidens. Variously known as beggarsticks, sticktights, Spanish needles and bur marigolds, these annoying seeds are the product of sweet, daisy-like flowers.
This cultivar, ‘Pirate’s Treasure,' is a spreading, tender, short-lived perennial with lax ferny leaves and semi-double (extra petals) daisy-like yellow flowers atop upright stems. It flowers constantly from midsummer to fall. Deadheading encourages more bloom...
(Beggarticks, Radiant Globe Yellow Bidens)
Almost every child, puppy and kitten has carried and dispersed the seeds of Bidens. Variously known as beggarsticks, sticktights, Spanish needles and bur marigolds, these annoying seeds are the product of sweet, daisy-like flowers.
This cultivar, ‘Radiant Globe Yellow,' is a spreading, tender, short-lived perennial with lax ferny leaves and semi-double (extra petals) daisy-like, broad-petalled yellow flowers atop upright stems. It flowers constantly from midsummer to fall. Deadheading...
Gerald L. Klingaman
(Bearded Beggarticks)
Pretty foliage and bright yellow, daisy-like flowers in summer and fall makes every gardener covet the bearded beggarticks. However, a copious production of two-pronged seeds that resemble ticks, readily snag in a pet's coat or on your pant legs. For this reason, this species warrants control to prevent rampant colonization across a landscape. Even though attractive in bloom, some people will always regard this wildflower as a weed.
Bearded beggarticks is a fast-growing annual native to the...
Jessie Keith
(Apache Beggarticks)
A short-lived, spreading perennial, often grown as an annual, Apache beggarsticks has a low, spreading habit and airy, rich green foliage. This native of the southern United States and Mexico is heat-loving and showy in bloom, when it produce many open, broad petaled golden yellow flowers at the ends of slender stems from summer to fall. The flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies and require little deadheading.
A plant for sunny sites, Apache beggarsticks grows best in rich to average...