River Birch & Birch Tree Care in the Philadelphia Area

How to spot river birch & birch

• Peeling, papery bark in salmon, tan, and cream (river birch) or white (white birch)
• Small, doubly-toothed triangular leaves
• Often planted in clumps of three trunks
• Drops twigs and small deadwood readily

River birch is one of the most-planted landscape trees in newer developments — that clump of peeling-bark trunks in the front yard is usually one. They grow fast and are fairly tough, but they're short-lived as trees go and they drop a steady stream of twigs and small deadwood.

The work on birches is mostly cleanup pruning, deadwood, and clearance — and removal when an aging clump starts dying back.

Common problems we see on river birch & birch

This is general guidance from three decades of tree work across the Philadelphia area — not a formal diagnosis. When it matters, we'll come look at the actual tree and give you a straight answer, free.

Our services for river birch & birch