{"title":"Silver Birch","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite trunks, fine fluttering foliage and butter-yellow autumn colour: birches bring a cool-climate elegance nothing else quite matches, especially planted in groups of three or five. This page lists every birch available from our partner farms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilver birch (Betula pendula) leads in all its forms: the classic species and its clean-trunked Alba and Moss White selections, multi-stem clumps for instant copse effect, the cut-leaf Dalecarlica, dark-leafed Black Prince, golden Wades Golden, upright Fastigiata for narrow spaces, and the weeping Youngii as a small lawn feature, stocked as standards at two heights. Lollipop-headed Globe standards cover formal courtyard work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the whitest bark in the family, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/betula-utilis-jacquemontii\"\u003eHimalayan birch Jacquemontii\u003c\/a\u003e is the specialist, with trunks that read almost painted. Japanese white birch Whitespire and the burgundy-flushed Royal Frost extend the collection. In warmer and more humid districts, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/betula-nigra-river-birch\"\u003eriver birch\u003c\/a\u003e (Betula nigra) is the pick: it trades white bark for handsome cinnamon peeling and shrugs off heat and wet soil that stress silver birch, with Dura Heat and the weeping Summer Cascade as selected forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing notes: birches are shallow-rooted moisture lovers. Give them deep soil, reliable water and mulch, and keep the root zone out of hot western sun; in cool-climate gardens from the ranges south they are effortless, while warm-coast planting should favour river birch. They cast only light shade, so gardens grow happily beneath them. Prune, if needed, in summer only, as winter-pruned birches bleed sap heavily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee also \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/maples\"\u003emaples\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/feature-trees\"\u003efeature trees\u003c\/a\u003e for companion planting. Every order ships farm-direct with flat $99 delivery across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA, a $399 minimum order, and the 30-Day Healthy Plant Guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"betula-nigra-bnmtf-dura-heat","title":"River Birch - Betula nigra BNMTF Dura Heat","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive this birch water and it forgives nearly everything else. Dura Heat is a selection of the American river birch bred for hot, humid summers, and it is the sensible substitute wherever silver birch scorches, sheds half its leaves by February and sulks for the rest of the season. The bark is the main event: pale cinnamon and salmon, peeling away in papery sheets on the younger stems, which is why it so often goes in as a multi-stemmed clump and gets uplit at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is small, glossy and darker than silver birch, holds better through heat, and turns soft yellow before it drops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiver birch is a floodplain tree, so it accepts ground that stays damp, which most birches will not. What it will not accept is drought. Plant it where irrigation reaches, mulch it widely, keep the root zone cool, and remember it is deciduous, so winter is bare stems and bark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFreight is a flat $99 across our delivery states of QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 4 sizes, from 250mm up to 400mm, priced from $91.95 to $259.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308384235889,"sku":null,"price":259.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64308384268657,"sku":null,"price":169.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308384301425,"sku":null,"price":91.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308384334193,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/JnmelHBSpHqeq_o2Gi2Ep_u6G4NKp4.jpg?v=1787627253"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-alba-multi-stem","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Alba Multi stem","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan you grow silver birch in a warm garden? Only within limits. Birch are cool climate trees. They do well in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, the tablelands and cooler coastal gardens, and they struggle where summers run long, hot and humid or where hard paving throws reflected heat back at the trunks. Given a cool root run, deep soil and reliable summer water they are one of the quickest ways to get height and light, dappled shade into a courtyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulti stem means several trunks grown from the one base, so the white bark reads as a group rather than a single pole and the canopy stays open above head height. Autumn colour is clear yellow, then bare white stems all winter. The small triangular leaves move in the slightest breeze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical notes. The roots are shallow and greedy, so underplanting tight to the stems is a losing fight, and spring aphids can drop honeydew onto anything parked underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 200L up to 750L, priced from $1879.00 to $9899.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"200L","offer_id":64308384530801,"sku":null,"price":1879.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"750L","offer_id":64308384563569,"sku":null,"price":9899.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/bqkHOCN7YPExehkb-Ibxh_rqcoJyO4.jpg?v=1787627254"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-black-prince","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Black Prince","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew growth on Black Prince opens close to black, which turns the familiar silver birch picture into something much heavier: dark purple foliage hung on a white trunk. Through summer the colour softens towards bronze-green, more so in shade or in humid weather, so plant it in full sun for the darkest result and expect some seasonal drift rather than one constant tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is less vigorous than a common silver birch, which is handy in a smaller garden, and the canopy stays light enough that grass and groundcovers still grow beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark leaves show stress badly. Hot dry wind burns the margins brown and the whole tree looks tired by late summer if the roots run dry, so mulch generously, water through heatwaves and keep it away from reflected heat off a west-facing wall. It is deciduous, and once the leaves go the bare white trunk carries the display through winter on its own. Offered here as a 45 litre advanced tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308384629105,"sku":null,"price":279.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/Ime4Ys1uMEy6ntZI8KQ9y_mZOOcMCL.jpg?v=1787627254"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-dalecarlica-cut-leaf-birch","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Dalecarlica Cut Leaf Birch","description":"\u003cp\u003eClumps of three or five is how cut leaf birch is normally used, and the texture is the reason. The leaves are deeply dissected, almost fern-like, carried on fine pendulous branchlets, so even a group of trees reads as light and open rather than a solid block of canopy. Underneath, the trunks are chalk white with dark diamond markings at the branch collars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAutumn turns the canopy soft yellow, then the leaves go and the white stems carry the winter. It works over paving, in courtyards where a heavy canopy would darken the house, and in avenues where the trunks are meant to be the feature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirches are the first trees to complain in an Australian summer. They are shallow rooted, so mulch the root zone generously, water through the dry months, and keep them away from hot reflected positions against west-facing walls and paving. Trees that dry out repeatedly are the ones that end up with borer. Given a cool root run they establish quickly and fill in well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 11 sizes, from 250mm up to 200L, priced from $76.95 to $1049.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"50L","offer_id":64308384760177,"sku":null,"price":379.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308384792945,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64308384825713,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"90L","offer_id":64308384858481,"sku":null,"price":549.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"200L","offer_id":64308384891249,"sku":null,"price":1049.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308384924017,"sku":null,"price":129.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64308384956785,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"250mm","offer_id":64308385022321,"sku":null,"price":76.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308385087857,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm Deep","offer_id":64308385120625,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"430mm","offer_id":64308385153393,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/GRm9O2Q65U6yxQTk-1eNq_Y6e0MYSG.jpg?v=1787627335"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-fastigiata-upright-pyramid-silver-birch","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Fastigiata Upright\/Pyramid","description":"\u003cp\u003eNothing about this one weeps. The branches ascend tightly against the trunk into a narrow pyramid, and it holds that shape without pruning, which makes it a different tool altogether from the usual silver birch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it where width is the problem: a narrow bed between a building and a boundary, a driveway line, a repeated row along a facade, or a screen that has to sit close to a fence. Small toothed leaves turn butter yellow in autumn and drop, letting winter sun reach the windows behind. The bark is the same white you plant a birch for in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is still a birch, so it still needs summer water. Mulch the root zone, plant in groups rather than isolating one tree in open hot lawn, and avoid west-facing courtyards that bake through February. Advanced stock is available to 300L, which is the sensible starting point when you are matching heights across a row.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 9 sizes, from 300mm up to 150L, priced from $149.00 to $999.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"100L","offer_id":64308385350001,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"430mm","offer_id":64308385382769,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150L","offer_id":64308385415537,"sku":null,"price":999.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64308385448305,"sku":null,"price":419.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308385513841,"sku":null,"price":229.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64308385546609,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300mm","offer_id":64308385579377,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75L","offer_id":64308385612145,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70L","offer_id":64308385644913,"sku":null,"price":609.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300L","offer_id":64446145298801,"sku":null,"price":3309.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/S7QNJIHtbv5_Tc3s2roYR_mEPigVLf.jpg?v=1787627254"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-globe-lollipop-standards","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Globe Lollipop Standards","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are top-worked trees, not seedlings. A dense, non-weeping globe form of silver birch has been grafted onto a straight clear stem, so the head sits as a tight ball at a fixed height and stays there. The tree thickens with age but never throws up a leader and grows away on you, and that predictability is why they get used in pairs at an entry, in repeated rows along a driveway, or in big planters where a full-sized birch would be unmanageable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAftercare is mostly about the graft. Leave the stake in until the union has thickened, because a wind-rocked head can snap clean at the join. Rub off any shoots appearing on the stem below the graft the moment you see them, or the rootstock will overtake the head within a season. A light trim of the outer growth in late winter holds the outline round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing deciduous, the head is bare in winter and the white stem does the work. Orders over $399 ship at a flat $99 to QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, ACT and WA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is supplied in one size, 400mm, at $289.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot it arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308386136433,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/L0SGyeFex7g88jW1W1wQa_y2Ah9AEK.jpg?v=1787627253"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-wades-golden","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Wades Golden","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet it beside a plain green birch and the difference shows all season. Wades Golden holds soft yellow to lime foliage from spring right through summer, where the ordinary form stays mid green until autumn. It is the pick when you want the birch habit, the white bark and the fine pendulous branchlets, but you also want the canopy to lift a dull corner or to contrast against dark evergreen hedging behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGolden foliage comes with a trade off. The leaves scorch in hot afternoon sun and in dry wind, so morning sun with some afternoon protection beats a hard western aspect, and summer water needs to be kept up. Growth is a little less vigorous than the green form, which suits smaller gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt works in courtyards and against rendered walls where a full sized shade tree would be too much. Keep mulch over the shallow root zone and avoid digging or cultivating around the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 330mm up to 400mm, priced from $149.00 to $199.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308386726257,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"330mm","offer_id":64308386759025,"sku":null,"price":149.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"150L","offer_id":64446145331569,"sku":null,"price":649.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/kP6bDsVWofBOuXjKu9-cm_o4U2RRTx.jpg?v=1787627254"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-youngii-weeping-birch-standards-1-2m","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Youngii Weeping Birch Standards 1.2m","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis one will not grow taller than the graft, and that is exactly the point of buying it. Youngii is a weeping form worked onto a straight stem at about 1.2 metres, so the head arches over and the branchlets hang toward the ground instead of building a leader. Height stays roughly where the graft sits; what increases with time is the width and density of the curtain of foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat makes it a small garden and courtyard tree. It suits the end of a path, a position over a low wall, or a large pot where you want movement without a canopy that swallows the yard. Small toothed leaves turn yellow before dropping, and winter shows the fine tracery of weeping stems against the pale trunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrune only to lift the skirt for mowing or to take out crossing whips inside the head. Rub off any shoots appearing on the trunk below the graft union, since those are common birch and will take over given the chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 400mm Deep up to 100L, priced from $199.00 to $889.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308387086705,"sku":null,"price":289.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64308387119473,"sku":null,"price":889.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"400mm Deep","offer_id":64308387152241,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/gIaMsb9iJzbz8r66DGd7n_A1tsYXSI.jpg?v=1787627335"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-youngii-weeping-birch-standards-1-8m","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Youngii Weeping Birch Standards 1.8m","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow tall does a weeping birch grow? For Youngii, the honest answer is: as tall as the graft. This is a strictly weeping form with no central leader, so the stem it is worked onto sets the final height, and these have been grafted at around 1.8 metres. From there the head builds outwards and the branches fall almost vertically, eventually curtaining to the ground unless you shorten them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a small mushroom-shaped tree carrying the fine leaves and white bark of silver birch, useful over a seat, beside a pond, or as a single specimen in a courtyard where a full birch would swamp the space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePractical notes: leave the stake and ties until the union is strong, remove any shoot that appears below the graft, and thin congested inner branches in late winter so the crown does not turn into a solid dome. It is deciduous, and the tracery of bare weeping stems is half the reason to plant it. Available in 400mm and 500mm pots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 400mm up to 100L, priced from $269.00 to $869.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"400mm","offer_id":64308387512689,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64308387545457,"sku":null,"price":869.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500mm","offer_id":64308387578225,"sku":null,"price":359.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/qhYT6KaB6BPot__KGu7v1_kGsALLbB.jpg?v=1787627335"},{"product_id":"betula-populifolia-royal-frost","title":"Grey Birch - Betula populifolia Royal Frost","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot a green leafed birch. Royal Frost carries deep purple to burgundy foliage that holds its colour well into summer before turning orange and red in autumn, which is unusual in this genus, since most birches give you yellow and nothing else. The bark whitens as the tree matures rather than being white from the start, so young stock looks browner in the trunk than buyers tend to expect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe habit is upright and fairly narrow with an open crown, which suits a driveway line or any spot where a broad spreading canopy is not wanted. The dark foliage needs full sun to hold its depth; in shade it goes a muddy green and the whole reason for choosing it disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCulture is the same as the rest of the birches. Cool root run, mulch, deep soil and steady water through summer heat. The shallow roots resent soil being dug over around the base, and long spells of dry heat set the tree back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 45L up to 75L, priced from $269.00 to $449.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? Read our guide to \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/best-trees-for-small-backyards-australia\"\u003echoosing a tree for a small backyard\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plant Drop","offers":[{"title":"75L","offer_id":64308387905905,"sku":null,"price":449.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"45L","offer_id":64308388004209,"sku":null,"price":269.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100L","offer_id":64446145397105,"sku":null,"price":719.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1017\/1049\/6113\/files\/9QmPPOzkd6iAQ0vi8HdwW_VXsOeHVO.jpg?v=1787627254"},{"product_id":"betula-pendula-moss-white","title":"Silver Birch - Betula pendula Moss White","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against seedling birch stock, this selection gives you a cleaner, whiter trunk, and it colours up at a younger age. Bark is what people plant a birch for, and Moss White was selected on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything else about the tree is light. Fine pendulous branchlets, small toothed leaves that move in the slightest breeze, thin shade you can plant underneath, and yellow autumn colour before the white stems stand bare through winter. Growth is moderate to fast. It is most often used in odd-numbered clumps or multi-stem groups rather than as a single specimen, and it suits courtyards and lightly planted avenues where a heavy canopy would be wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirch are cool climate trees and their roots hate being hot and dry. Mulch deeply, underplant to shade the root zone, water through summer, and keep them away from west-facing brick and reflected heat off paving. Trees under that kind of stress are the ones that attract borer. Full sun to part shade, with regular summer water, gets the best out of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 9 sizes, from 300mm up to 1000L, priced from $149.00 to $14529.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? 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The trunk is slender and the crown light and open, so one tree reads as thin against a wall. A grouped clump gives you a stand of white stems under a fine tracery of pendulous branchlets, which is the effect people are actually after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBark starts brown on young stems and whitens with age, peeling in papery layers, with black diamond markings developing around the base of older trees. Small triangular leaves with toothed edges shiver in the slightest breeze and turn clear yellow before they fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClimate decides the outcome. Birches come from cold northern forests and they struggle in hot dry inland positions, where stressed trees get picked off by borer. Cool districts, southern gardens and sheltered courtyards with reliable summer water are where they perform. The roots run close to the surface, so keep them out of vegetable beds and plan to water rather than compete with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 12 sizes, from 200mm up to Bare root, priced from $32.95 to $1049.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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River birch is the one that copes. It comes from creek flats and floodplains in the eastern United States, so it tolerates ground that stays wet through winter and handles heat and humidity far better than the European birches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBark carries this tree. Young stems peel in curling papery sheets of cream, salmon and cinnamon brown, and the effect is at its best on a multi stemmed clump lit from the side or uplit at night. Leaves are small, diamond shaped and sharply toothed, turning soft yellow in autumn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt still wants water through summer, as the spec table says, and it goes pale and chlorotic on limey alkaline soils. Roots run shallow and greedy, so keep it off the edge of a lawn you care about and mulch instead. Both multi stem clumps and single leader stock are available in advanced sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 5 sizes, from 200mm up to 100L, priced from $32.95 to $709.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. The smaller pots hold younger plants that cost less each and establish quickly, which suits hedges, screens and mass planting where the plant count adds up. The larger sizes carry several more years of growth on the farm and give height and presence straight away, which is what you want for a single feature position or a screen that cannot wait. Not sure which to choose? 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It is a Japanese white birch, chalky white on the trunk from a young age and without the heavy black diamond fissuring that builds at the base of Betula pendula, and it holds an upright narrow frame rather than a weeping one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaves are neat and triangular through the warm months and turn clear yellow before dropping. The winter silhouette of bare white stems is half the reason people buy it, which is why it works so well planted as multi stem clumps of three or five, uplit, in a courtyard or entry bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirch roots sit shallow and they do not forgive drought. Mulch wide, keep the water up through the first few summers, and do not put one in a hot reflected corner with no irrigation. Leaf drop is fine and quick to sweep, but the canopy will thin and look sparse for the rest of the season if the tree goes dry at the wrong time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 2 sizes, from 400mm up to 100L, priced from $199.00 to $649.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? 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Mature stems are chalk white and peel in thin papery sheets, a cleaner white than the common silver birch, but young trees often start out tan or coppery and whiten as they age, so a small plant will not look like the catalogue photograph straight away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanted in threes and fives as multi-stem clumps, it is the usual choice for a courtyard corner or a lit entry, where the small ferny leaves throw a light dappled shade through summer, turn yellow in autumn, and leave a set of white trunks standing over winter. Single-leader stock suits avenue work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowth is moderate to fast in full sun through to part shade, but the root system is shallow and fibrous and does not forgive drought. Reflected heat off paving and west-facing walls is what ruins birches in Australian gardens. Keep water up through summer, mulch well past the canopy edge, keep turf back from the base. 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The habit is genuinely pendulous, with no leader of its own, so the tree breaks and cascades from whatever height it has been staked to. Use it as a small feature tree over a pond edge, a courtyard specimen, or a mound spilling across the top of a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDecide the height before you plant\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe staking decision is yours and you only make it once. Train a stem up high and you get a small umbrella-shaped weeping tree with clearance underneath; leave it low and you get a mound of cascading growth suited to a bank or a water edge. Beyond that, this birch wants full sun to part shade and steady summer moisture, and unlike the white birches it tolerates wet, heavy ground and humid east coast summers, which is what makes it workable in Sydney and Brisbane gardens as well as cool climate ones. The diamond-shaped leaves are a fresh mid green through summer and turn soft yellow before they fall, a quieter autumn than a liquidambar gives you but one that arrives reliably in mild districts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe one real failure mode is a hot dry root zone. Birch roots run shallow and wide, and against reflected heat off paving, in a west-facing gravel bed, or with a lawn irrigation system that only wets the top few centimetres, the leaves scorch at the margins and the fine outer wood dies back. Mulch widely, water deeply through summer, and give the roots cool ground rather than a narrow hot pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNot a silver birch, and not a substitute\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone cross-shopping this against a weeping white birch should know the trade: you lose the chalk-white trunk and gain a tree that copes with damp soil and humidity. Against \u003ca href=\"\/products\/liquidambar-styraciflua\"\u003eSweet Gum - Liquidambar styraciflua\u003c\/a\u003e, the difference is scale and consequence, since the liquidambar throws far more shade and stronger autumn colour but brings surface roots and spiky seed capsules that rule it out of a courtyard. If the site is dry, alkaline and exposed, a birch of any kind is the wrong call and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fraxinus-ornus\"\u003eManna Ash - Fraxinus ornus\u003c\/a\u003e is the small deciduous tree to plant instead. More in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/silver-birch\"\u003esilver birch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePrune late, never in spring\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime pruning for late summer or early autumn, once growth has hardened. Birches bleed sap heavily from cuts made in late winter and early spring, which is unsightly and hard on a young tree, so avoid that window entirely. The work itself is light: thin crossing and rubbing stems inside the cascade, clear anything dragging on the ground, and keep the staked stem tied cleanly while it thickens. Feed in early spring with a balanced slow-release fertiliser and renew the mulch layer before summer, since a cool root zone does more for this tree than any fertiliser will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3 class=\"pd-size-guidance\"\u003eChoosing a size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis plant is available in 3 sizes, from 400mm up to 200L, priced from $259.00 to $1579.00 per plant. The size shown is the pot the plant arrives in, which is the rootball, not the height of the plant. Every size here is established stock rather than a starter plant, so this line is intended for immediate effect rather than for growing on. Not sure which to choose? 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Betula pendula is a cool climate tree with a shallow, greedy, surface feeding root system, and it will not hold a canopy through a long dry hot spell in bare unmulched soil. Give it a deep mulched root run, water it properly through summer, and keep lawn and thirsty underplanting away from the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet that right and it does something nothing else quite does. The white bark develops after the first few years, marked with dark diamonds and roughening low on the trunk; the branchlets weep off an upright frame; the small toothed leaves move in the lightest breeze and turn clear yellow before dropping. It is at its best planted in threes so the trunks read as one group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne practical warning. Aphids on birch drip honeydew, which becomes black sooty mould on whatever sits below. 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