Product Details
- Form: Medium sized standard tree 10-12cm girth.
- Height: 4-5m
- Width: 1-1.5m
- Production: Rootballed or containrised in autumn suitable for all year round planting
- Pot Size: 110-130ltr
- Position: Full son or partial shade
- Soil: Any soil type is suitable, although particularly useful in impoverished soils. Roots are shallow and spreading.
- Interest: Like jacquemontii clones this tree is grown primarily for it’s bark. It is also used where light screening is required as its leaves provide privacy without blocking out all the light.
- Rate of Growth: Up to 0.5m per year.
- Flowers: Green catkins up to 10cm long May.
- Hardiness: Very hardy
Betula ermanii is a more subtle silver birch with it’s warm tones of creamy white and pinkish bark, some have distinctly orangey tones on the mature stem. It is a graceful and vigorous tree well suited for group planting. It can reach 25m. It is an extremely variable species, varying in the smoothness or peeling quality of their bark. Some bark on mature specimens has an almost velvet-like texture.
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