River Birch Bonsai

The silver birch has become a popular and very sought after bonsai species in uk and europe.

River birch bonsai. The mulch will keep the hoses in place. River birch is a popular fast growing native tree for the home landscape. It s white craggly bark is full of character and it branches out quite profusely and finely making it a. The most common species used for bonsai cultivation are betula pubescens downy birch betula pendula silver birch and a dwarf birch called betula nana.

This species is resistant to bronze birch borer bbb. The river birch is native to the eastern united states and is a vigorous deciduous tree. Noted for its flowers that appear in drooping brownish male catkins and smaller upright greenish female. This new river birch was discovered by john and daniel allen at shiloh nursery in harmony north carolina.

Noted for its flowers that appear in drooping brownish male catkins and smaller upright greenish female catkins. Ensure that you cover the soaker hoses. Out of stock the river birch is native to the eastern united states and is a vigorous deciduous tree. There are many other species and hybrids that are also suitable for bonsai but are too numerous to list.

Dark green foliage turns a beautiful buttery yellow in the fall. Bonsai blog i trained this river birch bonsai from a seedling. Now the tree has been potted into a squat container and allowed to rest for well over a year. As a single trunk tree it develops a pyramidal habit when young but matures to a.

This bonsai first spent about three years in the field on a tile to increase the trunk size and help the roots grow out instead of down. Attractive salmon pink to reddish brown bark exfoliates to reveal lighter inner bark.