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Birch Tree

  • White rambling rose bush trained against a fence and growing around a silver birch tree in a UK garden flowerbed
    Arts & Life
    Backyard Birch: A Friend Through the Seasons
    On a warmish day the first spring we were here, I was out walking the dogs and as I passed the birch my eye was caught by the reddish-orange forewing band of dozens of red admiral butterflies lined up along a seam running down the side of the trunk.