birch
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Instead the RHS is considering trees that enjoy hotter and wetter weather, like the American river birch or crepe myrtle, or plants with deeper roots to tolerate drought like yarrow or bird’s foot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
It says that while pines contain flammable resins, species such as alder, rowan, aspen and birch are higher in moisture content which means they do not burn as easily.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The cars are connected to charging points by the garages for the flats, which are in traditional red buildings bordered by birch trees and a large golf course.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Among the evidence they gathered were purchase orders for birch plywood emailed from Boise’s Pompano office, including some that arrived after investigators conducted their raid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Chi-Boy would be waiting for her just past the first cluster of birch.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
In my Connecticut backyard, I’ve been reclaiming the turf under my maples and birches by planting native ferns, geraniums and woodland asters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Around 700,000 years ago, dense forests of pines, birches, and chestnut relatives gave way to more open habitats with larger patches of grassland.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
Hiking north, the trunks are almost as pale as birches, even though more texture is visible; in fact, they are members of the same family, Betulaceae.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Biters told me they look for silvery, bright white birches with dusky pink or tan-colored inner bark that’s pliable and free of knots.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2021
Like the crawl of a black snake, they wound their way beneath tall white sycamores, black gums, birches, and box elders.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
If this be true, I feel sure that Mr. Urban's stars glistened on eucalyptical roses whilst potted canopied moonlit sprays birched on every garden of gauze.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Great-Grandfather birched Grandfather for sneaking into the hayloft with a yellow, blue and green wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick on Deck, worrywarts have viewed U.S. reading habits with alarm.
From Time Magazine Archive
During this time two boys were birched by the queen's orders, and an officer was sent out to inquire why the watch he had given her did not go.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
It was but a year since the young Cornet, now so knowing a hand in Cribb's parlour, had a still lingering liking for toffy, and used to be birched at Eton.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws.
From Time Magazine Archive
He could not endure another public expulsion, or even another birching; he could not endure the cold faces of even his best friends.
From Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
And all the birching in the world will not destroy a wish; the most it can do is to change its form.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill
They have not as much as had a birching; and I say that the college masters ought to be hooted.
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
