WILD MONTH
Sep 23, 2021
3 minutes
By Ben Hoare
ONLINE
THE MEANING OF TREES
Professor Fiona Stafford on birch.
1 | SILVER BIRCH
Lady of the woods
Among our native trees, the silver birch puts on one of the most spectacular autumn displays. Golden leaves provide a beautiful contrast with pale, peeling bark, enhanced by the dappled effect created by the tree’s naturally open and airy structure. In a breeze, the burnished foliage dances and shimmers. Birch was known as the ‘lady of the woods’ in Irish Gaelic poetry, and more recently,
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