The skeleton of birches in winter, with their ghostly white trunks and bony branches ... in which pride of place went to a multi-stemmed golden birch (Betula costata, supplied by Cork nursery ...

A multi-stemmed tree’s shape is its major selling point. Like my birch, it has a small number ... the bark turns greeny brown with white stripes. Cornus Kousa var chinensis is another good ...