Comments on: More Ancient Mulberry Trees

By: Rachelle marks

Rachelle marks — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:17:04 +0000

There was one in my garden in Jane at now mulberry school

By: Paul Shutler

Paul Shutler — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:08:14 +0000

Keep up the good work, there are few things more humbling than being in the presence of an ancient Mulberry tree.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:09:30 +0000

My favourite mulberry trees are the ones in West Square, a lovely little oasis of foliage and flowers, only a few minutes walk from the grime and gridlock of Elephant & Castle.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:55:31 +0000

There is a mulberry UK website, but it hasn’t got anywhere near all. I know one near Leigh on Sea station and have just seen a couple at Kew. Alas, I had to visit the London Chest Hospital several times but didn’t know about the tree. Now I go to Barts and make do with the Caucasion wingnuts in Smithfield.
http://mulberrytrees.co.uk/

By: Heather Fenton

Heather Fenton — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:24:36 +0000

I understand that there is a Mulberry tree in the garden of the Vicarage for St mark’s Kennington. do you know about this?

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:00:50 +0000

Wonderful as usual: but by a wild coincidence, I’ve just been reading ‘The Ingenious Mr Fairchild’ by Michael Leapman (Fairchild being of course the famous Hoxton gardener about whom you wrote a few weeks ago). According to Leapman, in 1724 Fairchild and other gardeners reported to the Master of the Charterhouse that two more gardeners should be employed (there was only one at the time) in order to supply the institution with all the vegetables needed: the estimated cost of all proposed changes would be £31.0.6d. It looks as though the recommendation was not acted upon…

By: Achim

Achim — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:46:03 +0000

May I introduce again? MY TREE, a more than 500 years old Oak Tree at the Sensenstein near Kassel, a natural monument. He has lost some larger branches during the last thunderstorms. But that doesn’t bother him. He has survived 500 years of human history!

http://www.fotocommunity.de/fotograf/achimthepooh/fotos/sensenstein-eiche/850904

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Pamela V. Cullen

Pamela V. Cullen — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:05:52 +0000

I recall an old mulberry at Ingatestone Hall in Essex, eating the mulberries from it and getting very stained with the juice! It is near the Hall in a courtyard. I shall now have to start looking for them here in France!

By: rae donaldson

rae donaldson — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 07:37:21 +0000

These luminous pictures have brought a tear to my eye this morning. Thank you!

By: Bernadette Hancock

Bernadette Hancock — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 05:10:17 +0000

I live in Bartholomew Close overlooking the rear church garden of St Bartholomew the Great. The garden is in need of some tlc, which the Beadle at Founders (Leo) and I are providing, but in the middle there is a very large Mulberry. Gareth from Open Spaces was here recently shaping an Elder which was trying to grow into one of my neighbours’ first floor windows. Gareth said the Mulberry, whilst not as ancient as some around here, was in great shape. I’m so lucky to have a view of it from my window.
I went to Charterhouse on their recent Open gardens evening. Their gardens are magnificent. Thanks for featuring.