Scientists created samples of the black resin using three methods and tested their effectiveness against two common bacteria ...

THE elegant silver birch tree in my back garden helps define the changing seasons. Nut and seed-filled feeders currently hang from its leafless pendulous boughs, providing sustenance for wild birds ...

Silver birch trees are being blamed for causing health problems in Timaru. Former councillor and current South Canterbury District Health Board member Terry Kennedy says he has never been affected by ...

Q: I purchased a piece of land last year with three silver birch trees on it. The largest is about 30 feet tall and had a low branch removed many years ago. The inside of the stub rotted and was ...

Wall-grown peach and nectarine trees need to be protected from leaf curl, a disfiguring fungal disease. It's caused by the Taphrina deformans fungus, which is carried in rain and causes severe ...

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Silver birch trees are being cut down from a Whanganui residential street after complaints that they may be causing asthma. Video Emma Russell Silver birch trees are being cut down from a Whanganui ...

A good wash and brush up is not something that need be reserved for gentlemen in those early 20th-century films and novels where Brylcreem was de rigeur and a pair of whalebone hairbrushes were ...