'In the fall, when temperatures are cool, the best action to take is to prune back birch limbs, especially those showing ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Peeling bark can be very pretty. I have friends who don't get the appeal, so to speak, and think any tree or shrub with exfoliating bark, as it's known, looks diseased or messy.

Submitted photoA tree that offers great landscape appeal is the river birch (Betula nigra or water birch) which is native to the eastern and southern United States. “The larger the island of knowledge ...

So often we choose a tree because of its flowers, leaves, fall color or its fruit. Often, we forget about the bark. However, on many trees, the bark is the most interesting part of the tree. This can ...

Once leaves drop from trees, splitting, peeling, bleached or oozing bark may become more noticeable. The cause can range from normal bark development to environmental causes or disease. If tree bark ...

Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway always knew something about the body she was born into wasn't right. "I really felt like the first 28 years of my life I was living a lie," said Benaway. "I was ...

Under Tao's guidance, the students painstakingly peel off the outermost hard shell of the birch bark. From there, they continue to carefully peel off the birch bark, layer by layer, cutting the bark ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...

The winter landscape may seem a bit bland at first glance. But if you look closely, you’ll find that quite a few plants have interesting bark that is actually easier to appreciate without the ...

HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...