Three birches offer unusual
form and cold hardiness
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Young’s Weeping Birch (Betula pendula ‘Youngii’) is a picturesque, weeping tree. Its characteristic, asymmetric branch structure is easily shaped into cascading, sweeping figures. The cascading branches of Young’s Weeping Birch are easily trained into contorted shapes that place a new twist on this old garden favorite.
A sparkling white trunk is complemented by a mantle of dark green leaves that turn yellow in the fall. Bare branches are beautiful in winter when covered by a mantle of freshly fallen snow. Hardiness of this picturesque tree is USDA Zone 2.

Trost Dwarf Birch (Betula pendula ‘’Trost Dwarf’) is a diminutive weeping birch with finely cut leaves and cascading form. Its leaves and overall shape resemble weeping Japanese maples of the dissectum type. Ours are top-grafted onto Jacquemontii birch standards. The bold white color of its trunk offsets deeply dissected, spidery-thin green leaves in summer and a fine tracery of branches and stems in winter.
Foliage emerges silvery green, matures to a deeper green shade, and turns yellow in the fall. Its mounded, weeping form reaches about four feet in height height and spread. Hardiness is USDA Zone 3.

Rocky Mountain Splendor® Birch (Betula ‘Rockimon’) is a vigorous and hardy white-barked birch that originated in the Rocky Mountains. Thought to be a hybrid of B. pendula and B. occidentalis, it is cold hardy even in USDA Zone 2 climates. This vigorous selection assumes a broadly pyramidal to oval form as it matures to a height of about 45 feet and spread of about 30 feet. Chemical analysis has shown this cultivar to be resistant to birch borer.
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