River birch trees may be one of many gorgeous trees with white bark that create striking backyard contrast, and it also helps protect the landscape near rivers. How cool is that? Read the original ...

It offers beautiful, bright yellow leaves in autumn and a showy silver and salmon trunk in the winter, adding to any landscape such as the Bates Campus. Arbor Day Foundation. River Birch Betula nigra.

If your yard must have a birch tree, plant a river birch.” Well, I planted a river birch back in the 1990s and it’s now 40 feet tall ...