Young’s Weeping Silver Birch | Betula pendula Youngii - Height 120-150cm - 10lt Crab Apple before the leaves

before the leaves

It is fast-growing

hanging in loose panicles

with its compact habit and lovely silvery-green foliage

moderate summer temperatures

Young’s Weeping Silver Birch | Betula pendula Youngii - Height 120-150cm - 10lt Crab Apple before the leavesBetula pendula Youngii is a smaller form of the common silver birch with distinguished weeping habit. It has long, elegant, pendulous branches with triangular, serrated, mid green leaves that turn warm yellow in autumn, and lovely white bark, especially in winter. It was found as a chance seedling and introduced in 1874, by Maurice Young nursery, from Surrey, England. Betula pendula Youngii is easily grown in any type of soil, but prefers moist, well