The ideal tree for the small courtyard or townhouse garden, Young’s birch has an attractive umbrella shape that allows it to fit perfectly at the side of a pond or flower bed. It can also be grown ...

THE elegant silver birch tree in my back garden helps define the changing seasons. Nut and seed-filled feeders currently hang from its leafless pendulous boughs, providing sustenance for wild birds ...

I grew up with birch trees just outside the window. They jutted from the remains of a turn-of-the-century rockery, which separated the drive from the lawn. When we arrived in the 1970s, the garden had ...

Silver birches are among the best trees for small gardens since they never produce too dense a canopy and their root systems are unlikely to shift foundations. That said, always make sure they are ...

Researchers at University of Helsinki, Finland and University at Buffalo, USA have analyzed the evolutionary history of silver birch using big data from the genomes of 150 birches. Big data is a ...

The cover images in volume 218 all feature botanical illustrations of plants and trees with a connection to dentistry some from the past and a selection still used in present times. This issue's cover ...

Big data is a buzzword that is often used in customer behavior analyses or social network modeling. However, big data is also being created in biology, where modern high-throughput DNA sequencing can ...