Planted three in 2005.
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| June 2006 |
Bartlett is treating all for birch miner, and fertilizing as needed. They did root collar excavations in summer ‘07.
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| summer 2010 |
They are very shallow rooted and don't like hot summers. Birches are messy trees-- they drop a lot of twigs when it's windy.
Bartlett treats them for leaf spot fungus each year -- otherwise these trees get leaf spot and lose all their leaves in August.
With the leaf spot treatments, they look good and fall color is a rich yellow. They look nice contrasted with the red fall color of the maples in the yard.
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| 10/22/12 |
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| 11/2/13 |
I keep wishing we had planted them closer together to form more of a little grove. They look like they are in a line here, but they are arranged in a very wide triangle.
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| 11/21/13 |
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| 9/12/14 |
How they stand out when all the leaves are down!
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| 11/17/15 |
