4. River Birch (Betula nigra) If you're tight for square footage and you're a stickler for a tidy front yard, river birch is not for you. In a compact space, it may make you unpopular with your ...

Birch trees, with their beautiful bark, cute catkins, and lovely leaves, are ideal landscape plants for many yards. In the right ... white bark to the weeping river birch (Betula nigra 'Summer ...