The experiments involved adding microplastic beads tagged with fluorescent dyes to the soil of potted silver birch trees. The root systems were analyzed using fluorescence and confocal laser ...

Root and Branch is the RTÉ lyric fm podcast ... The most usual is the downy birch, which like silver birch is a delicate tree with fine branches and small leaves. The springtime flowers are ...

Obviously with this root system I am never going to have a very level lawn and unfortunately have decided to remove my 40ft silver birch. Will this tree have a tap root? What would you suggest I do?

Earlier research from her lab had shown that silver birch trees were good at capturing particles larger than 1 µm. Now they wanted to know whether it would also nab ultrafine particles and ...

Join the Irish Heritage Tree program and plant your roots in Ireland ... There are two types of birch in Ireland, downy and silver. The most usual is the downy birch, which like silver birch ...

Grass prefers full sun and in the long run gets out-competed by the tree roots for moisture and nutrients. If the birch could talk, it would pick a nice bed of 2 or 3 inches of bark mulch and/or ...

“Silver birch trees are naturally lightweight species ... of falling branches without requiring removal. “In terms of root growth, I note that parked cars on the lawn may be exacerbating ...