Now.  Now on a Saturday.  Now in January.  Now in the winter of the year two thousand and eleven.  What catches your eye now?  Not that beautiful stranger or that creamy chocolate cupcake, botanical interests only please.  With your outside eye, which plants fascinate and enrich during this time of dark-cold?  The birch is one.  With the absence of leafy green, the bark is ‘appealing’ … Continue reading Betula jacquemontii Whitebarked Himalayan Birch Tree