Populus tremula Purple Often retains its leaves through

Often retains its leaves through the winter in sheltered positions

offering the same stately broadly-oval habit

high quality nuts

graceful birch from Sweden with drooping branchlets and prettily cut leaves turning golden in autumn

Resistant to Dutch elm disease and tolerates polution and salt

Populus tremula Purple Often retains its leaves throughDeciduous. A medium to large sized, robust, quick growing native tree tolerant of wide variety of conditions, but especially at home around water. As such, you will often see them planted en masse around lakes, marinas, and reservoirs, their foliage rattling pleasantly in the breeze (hence the name). The leaves are prominently toothed, late in appearing and hanging late in the autumn when they turn a clear butter yellow. Long grey catkins drape the