Comments on: The Mile End Mulberry

By: Achim

Achim — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:28:28 +0000

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

http://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/1954591?page=1&folder_id=850904

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Eleanor Rigby

Eleanor Rigby — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:03:07 +0000

We had a mulberry tree in my school, Coborn Grammar school for girls in the Mile End road, quite an uncommon sight in a school garden.

By: Shawdian

Shawdian — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 07:40:12 +0000

The Mullberry is weird and wonderful. In photos the an real time, the leaves look so fresh and yummy I could eat them! The trunks of the trees twist and turn and bulge out with their many elephantosas (did I just make up that word) bulges, lumps, that in anything else, would look ugly, but on the Mullberry are charasmatic splurts of wonder. I Love Mullberry trees. Wasn't there a childs nursury rhyme that started, 'Here we go round the Mullberry bush, the mullbery bush, On a cold & frosty morning, by the aptly named James Orchard Halliwell. George Bernard Shaw's Mullbery Tree is my favourite tree, having spent many a good day sat under that tree as I read a good Shaw book. Shaw often went for his daily walks through London when he lived at Whitehall and he comments about the beautiful London Mullberry Trees. May they last till London lasts, stay for ever in their beauty.

By: Maura Bangs

Maura Bangs — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 07:05:09 +0000

I found an old, abundantly fruiting, black mulberry yesterday, in the garden of the Geffrye Museum. It was wonderful to stain my fingers again with the purple juice & to watch a pair of blackbirds gorging on the windfalls.

Thank you for the link, in your original article, to the Morus Londinium site. You’ve inspired me to go on a hunt for the mulberry trees of my childhood.

My father was a police officer in the Met & we lived in police flats for a large part of my childhood. Both of the addresses we lived in had large, shared gardens & a mulberry tree featured in each. I remember the trouble I would be in, too – mulberries stain to a remarkable, permanent, purple hue.

In fact, has any thought been given to whether some of London’s black mulberries were grown for dyeing silk, rather than to feed silkworms?

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 06:57:33 +0000

Now; this is a splendid blog by GA such depth and colour , showing fresh flushes of green. Most of the veteran mulberry’s in the UK are inherited and well cared for, some say the fruits are divine. Perhaps some keep these trees because there is an end product. There is a lot more to mulberry’s they are really loved and pruned with care. They provide a focal point in the garden they become your friend and are major talking points at garden parties, gathering around the tree. I have witnessed these events. Dare I say it the veterans deserve a sacred status. I am talking on behalf of all mulberry’s. People out there bring on more young trees invest for the future please. John

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 05:12:13 +0000

A beautiful corner of the old East End which has thankfully been preserved. Valerie