Contact us if you’d like a river birch!
Quincy Tree Alliance volunteers potted up dozens of trees at the Wakefield Arboretum (Image: Maggie McKee)
QTA volunteers helped pot up tree saplings for giveaway through the Blue Hills Climate Action Coalition on April 4, 2022. Mark Smith, executive director of the Wakefield Arboretum in Milton, trained us in how to pot up the bare-root trees, and we now have five river birches to donate. Please email quincytreealliance@gmail.com if you’d like to request one!
From the Arbor Day Foundation:
As its name suggests, the river birch naturally grows along riverbanks. But as a landscape tree, it can be planted almost anywhere in the U.S. The species is valued for its relatively rapid growth, tolerance of wetness and some drought, unique curling bark, spreading limbs, and relative resistance to birch borer.
Provides brilliant yellow fall color
Develops a cinnamon-colored bark that curls and peels (once mature)
Is the most borer-resistant birch
QTA member Jocelyn pots up a river birch sapling (Image: Maggie McKee)
The Wakefield Arboretum has more than just trees! (Image: Maggie McKee)
