Betula pendula Youngii | Young’s Weeping Birch - 300-350cm, 130lt Mature colourful shrub

colourful shrub

but thrives in moderately fertile

It does best in cool northern climates

that turn light tan as they mature

Betula pendula Youngii | Young’s Weeping Birch - 300-350cm, 130lt Mature colourful shrubBetula pendula Youngii is a smaller form of the common silver birch with distinguished weeping habit. It has long, elegant, pendulous branches with triangular, serrated, mid green leaves that turn warm yellow in autumn, and lovely white bark, especially in winter. It was found as a chance seedling and introduced in 1874, by Maurice Young nursery, from Surrey, England. Betula pendula Youngii is easily grown in any type of soil, but prefers moist, well