"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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Silver birches have a friendly fungus that grows on the roots, it's
totally harmless indeed |I think the tree actually benefits from it. can't
remember the name though,

Should be not problem at all.

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

mycorrhizal symbioses is wot u iz afta:-)