I had planted two river birch trees at our prior home in Missouri. They are very fast growing, they are beautiful, and they provide terrific shade. But, there is a cost to all of that. I did not mind the fact that they shed leaves...that's what deciduous trees do. It was the shedding of limbs and twigs that did me in. I'm not talking a handful here and there, either. Numerous times throughout the year the trees would drop hundreds and hundreds of small branches, and even some larger ones. While this is "normal" for a river birch, it turned out to be a maintenance chore I would not want to repeat. There are better choices.
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