European White Birch

[Hartinez]

It's looking really good, keep it up-wait WHAT?! deets?

I can’t say I know for sure what happened. My thoughts are.

I should not have performed the cut back and partial defoliation that was suggested I perform so late in the season.

It was an exceptionally dry winter for us. While most of my trees were mulched in and I watered every week or so. I just may have let this tree dry out too much.

Paired with late summer work, it may have been the death nail

 

[Frozentreehugger]

I can’t say I know for sure what happened. My thoughts are.

I should not have performed the cut back and partial defoliation that was suggested I perform so late in the season.

It was an exceptionally dry winter for us. While most of my trees were mulched in and I watered every week or so. I just may have let this tree dry out too much.

Paired with late summer work, it may have been the death nail

That sucks . Playing devils advocate . The European white birch . Is well known to be prone to fail from . Disease and bugs . Especially in North America . It’s popularity as a landscape tree . Stems from part nostalgia from Europeans . That move here . And more practical . It’s ease of propagation. And rapid growth . Plus less problematic in different soils . Here in Ontario Canada . There sold everywhere as landscape plants . But a old nature tree is rare .anything 20 years old or older. Has noticeable problems . My literally day one first job. When I purchased my house 21 years ago . Was cut down and burn . The 2/3 dead . One about 10 years old on my front lawn. So I don’t think you should beat yourself up about . Exactly what happened . Unfortunately the natives . Are mostly large leaved . Myself I started playing last year with some . Arctic birch . Betula nana . Or dwarf birch . These are small shrubs . And no they don’t have white bark , but they have 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide leaves . Arguable the most cold hardy . At usda zone 2 Deciduous tree on the planet . The cultivar Cesky gold is fairly easy to find . Somewhat argumentative what it’s exact history is . Including possible some European white birch Dna .

 

[Hartinez]

That sucks . Playing devils advocate . The European white birch . Is well known to be prone to fail from . Disease and bugs . Especially in North America . Its popularity as a landscape tree . Stems from part nostalgia from Europeans . That move here . And more practical . It’s ease of propagation. And rapid growth . Plus less problematic in different soils . Here in Ontario Canada . There sold everywhere as landscape plants . But an old nature tree is rare .anything 20 years old or older. Has noticeable problems . My literally day one first job. When I purchased my house 21 years ago . Was cut down and burn . The 2/3 dead . One about 10 years old on my front lawn. So I don’t think you should beat yourself up about . Exactly what happened . Unfortunately the natives . Are mostly large leaved . Myself I started playing last year with some . Arctic birch . Betula nana . Or dwarf birch . These are small shrubs . And no they don’t have white bark , but they have 1/4 to 1/2 inch wide leaves . Arguable the most cold hardy . At usda zone 2 Deciduous tree on the planet . The cultivar Cesky gold is fairly easy to find . Somewhat argumentative what it’s exact history is . Including possible some European white birch Dna .

I certainly didn’t expect it to do as well as it did the first several years. But all the more reason I should not have been performing any sort of late season work. I knew better but did it anyways. Live and learn.

 

[Wood]

Soooo you're heading back to Lowe's later today?

 

[Hartinez]

Soooo you're heading back to Lowe's later today?

I look for another specimen similar all the time. Really was rare to find such a great tree at the box store. Part of why it sucks it died.

 

[Shogun610]

Damn .. add it to the tree memorial thread when you’re ready my friend.

 

[Frozentreehugger]

I certainly didn’t expect it to do as well as it did the first several years. But all the more reason I should not have been performing any sort of late season work. I knew better but did it anyways. Live and learn.

Well it still sucks to loss. A tree you have time effort and emotions. Tied up in . But you can take what you learned . About the species . And move forward . Trust me I’m well aware of the pain . In the words of Ryan Neal . We do a lot of things that will make a great bonsai or kill the tree.

 

[misfit11]

Damn. That's a bummer, Danny. I liked that tree a lot. Losing trees never gets easier.