Silver birch makes an attractive addition to a native hedging scheme its delicate stems and twigs form a dense screen even when bare in winter brown catkins hang down in late spring and summer against the back drop of leaves adding extra interest 45 and of course the silver47white coloured bark is what the tree is famous for33 supplied as 60 45 90cm bareroots 4024 45 313441 height 12m 40393941 spread 8m 40263941 planting distance 30cm 4012