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"Sue" writes:
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| As a rough calculation my 3 silver birch trees produce about 1
| billion
| seeds a year
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| I want to have some silver birch at the end of my garden (two or three would
| be lovely) but it'd be awful if I began to feel about them in the same way
| that I view those b***** ash saplings that are springing up everywhere!

They aren't as bad. There are more seeds, but fewer are viable,
and the seedlings don't get as big as fast (as the seeds are much
smaller). But you will get them everywhere.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.