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White Birch group plantings from seeds

White Birch group plantings started four years ago from seeds. ...

February 26, 2023 · Philippe

White Birch waking up

Magnificent and ephemerous spectacle A winter long of constraints revealed in tender leaves Birch has many subtleties ...

April 16, 2022 · Philippe

Paper Birch clumps

Those young White Birch (or Paper Birch, Betula papyrifera) clumps were repotted in ceramics. They are three years old and were started from seeds. ...

March 7, 2022 · Philippe

Defoliating White Birch kabudachi

These small birches were wired on March 5, 2021. Three months later the wire is starting to bite and is removed. I partially defoliate the trees to stimulate more interior growth....

June 12, 2021 · Philippe

Wiring young white birch group plantings

These now 2-years-old white birches were planted together in 2020. Their trunks are now fusing together and I wired them to evoke an isolated clump at the edge of a forest. Here are two pairs of before-after shots....

March 5, 2021 · Philippe

Leaf emergence on white birch

April 25 confined still ready to burst April 30 life emerging crunchy greens...

April 30, 2020 · Philippe

Kabudachi using white birch

These one-year-old white birch (Betula papyrifera) saplings are god candidates for a group planting or kabudachi. The young plants are separated in groups ranging between 7 and 9 individuals, combining smaller and larger ones. The forests are planted in 6 inches pots and will grow until the trunks fuse together....

March 28, 2020 · Philippe