Don't grow your garden or introduce small ornamentals near a tree's surface root system (its life-support ... and spruces. Birch and hemlock seem less affected by root fill damage than other ...

Birch trees are most susceptible to bronze birch ... Imidacloprid, a systemic insecticide, can be applied to the root system as a drench or a root injection (by a certified arborist) to prevent ...

Foresters regularly remove birch trees from an area to give the more ... but trees occupy another world underground. When two root systems overlap, and with the help of some beneficial fungi ...

Birch trees began dropping leaves as early as June ... because they have an extensive root system that will help them survive through a month or couple months of a drought,” said arborist ...

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 ...

In those conditions, the trees did what they had to do to conserve water, he said: They had dieback of the root systems and dieback ... Juday said, the birch trees have suffered from an ...

For the first time, researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have shown that birch trees absorb microplastics through their roots during the growth phase.