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Coleridge referred to Betula pendula as ‘most beautiful of forest trees, the lady of the woods’. Its elegance, pendulous grace and white stems make it one of the most loved of Britain’s native trees. A low December sun, picking out the delicate tracery of its fine twigs, and highlighting the white bark running up into the topContinue reading “Birches: the UK’s ‘lady of the woods’ has some handsome Asiatic consorts”