Depending on your current and desired color scheme, consider the hue of the leaves (on or off the branch) as well. Some popular trees commonly used as fall decor are Japanese maple, birch ...

Inspecting a birch tree before the leaves have fallen makes it easier to spot the dead branches to target when pruning birch trees in winter. It is not advisable to prune birch trees in spring.

The two-lined hooktip moth lays its eggs in even rows on twigs and leaves of birch and alder trees. When the eggs hatch, almost inscrutably small larvae emerge, some as short as half a millimeter. But ...

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