Q: In the spring of 1986 we planted a European weeping white birch in the middle of our rose garden. It was looking great until about two months ago when it started looking paler and paler. All ...

The team scanned two birch trees, one in Finland and one in Austria, each over the course of a single night. They made 11 scans of the Finnish tree, approximately one per hour, and 77 of the ...

We have the trees, we have the resources, the arch, the pans to do it, and the time, so we might as well try it out. And we tried it out and it was well received,” he said.

A website called Blooms & Branches, for example, sells a half-dozen 6-foot-long birch poles for $57.42 and a bundle of birch twigs for $11.97. Buyers were paying cutters between $1 and $3 per pole ...