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Japanese Birch Special

(call to order single trees)

The Japanese Birch also called the Asian white birch is regarded as one of the most pest resistant white-barked birches. The Japanese birch has shown great resistance to the white birch borer and to the leaf miner. The leaves and shape of the Japanese Birch is very close to the paper birch.  The main visual difference between the paper birch and the Japanese birch is the white or paper birch has exfoliating bark and the Japanese does not. They both have the beautiful chalky white bark.  The cultivar `Whitespire Senior' is micro-propagated from the original tree.  The tree tolerates slightly alkaline soil conditions. Birch are found most commonly mixed with white cedar or arborvitae and hemlock in low lying areas in the upper Midwest. As with most Birch the Whitespire Birch loves wet ground and full sun. Given enough water and fertilizer a Japanese Birch can grow 2-4' per year. We have birch saplings and seedlings of white or paper, river and whitespire or Japanese white.