I know this is Betula. Can someone please pin down the species? Photograph taken in Glendoick gardens Scotland. I expect it is something the Cox family have brought back from a plant hunting trip. It was rather wet,and lighting on the dark side but it still looks extremely hairy. Thanks
Even though their web site does not offer a garden plant list or a specific identification assistance link maybe if you e-mail them somebody will help you with this birch anyway.
Tried that Ron. Sent e mail to Ken Cox. This was the reply. "It is a dwarf betula, I cant recall the name at the moment." Ken Cox Which is why I have come to seek help here. It was a very striking small tree/ shrub. Even dripping wet.
On their site they trumpet the botanical collection. Not much good for the public if it is not interpreted for them, is it?
Very true. The woodland gardens were looking wonderful. However, I was very sad to see that many of the small woodland treasures that we had seen a few years ago, were completely gone. Swamped by dratted Pentaglottis sempervirens.
Maybe the birch is mentioned in his 2008 book Garden Plants for Scotland. Dead twig with dead catkins on end may indicate a problem, if it had much more of this might be something to consider. Some birches here have a marring condition which kills branch ends which then proliferate in the fashion of a broom behind the dead part.
