Some Favourite London Mulberries
May 23, 2021
In celebration of the news that the Bethnal Green Mulberry is saved, here is a gallery of some of my favourite London Mulberries
At the Tower of London
At Charlton House
At Middle Temple
At KIng’s Bench Walk
In Haggerston
In Whitechapel
In Stoke Newington
At Charterhouse
In Victoria Park
In the Commissioner’s Garden at Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard
At Mile End Place
At Abbey Wood
At Syon
At Sayes Court, Deptford
In Bunhill Fields
In Dalston
At the London Chest Hospital
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They are certainly handsome trees, developing unique character as they age. Plus you can eat the berries or make jam from them.
There is a mulberry tree in the children’s playground next to Butterfield Green Orchard N16
It is such an uplifting of spirits after the dark times of the pandemic. The pandemic may not be over yet but the verdict which has saved a beautiful living monument to our Huguenot history, does at least give us hope for the future.
Fantastic shapes and gnarly textured bark on the mulberry trees.
Also interesting that so many of them have props, just like the beloved old Bethnal Green mulberry.
Let’s hope they all survive into even older age…
Sadly once you could have included the mulberry at Barnet College…it had grown in the grounda o f the old grammar schoolsince 1555 but was cut down by developers building the new (hideous ) college in about 2005.
It was healthy, produced fruit every year, & was a beautiful tree. The developers & college managemement of course could find no other course of action…for which they will always be remebered. So the people of Barnet no longer have their wonderful Tudor tree…but they have got a lovely mega prison style ‘education’ barracks .
I think there used to be a large mulberry at the back of Tredegar House in Bow Road when it was the Tower Hamlets Health authority building. The garden area was approached from a car park at the rear.
I hope the tree has survived as the builfing was turned into flats. It produced dark purple fruit.
An interesting description of such trees particularly in London. Have you thought of doing
a book on this? The recent work Ghost trees on Poplar trees went very well.I’d think about this as your latest work?
Beautiful shots of these very special creatures. — A few days ago I visited “my tree”, a 600 year old oak. And this is how she is today:
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Love & Peace
ACHIM
Greetings from Boston,
GA, what a beautiful photos of mulberry trees around London. They look so well cared for and protected – a fitting epilogue to your long fought battle.
Letters from thousands of people from around the world, lawyers, botanists, blogs and funds were needed to save the Bethnal Green mulberry.
Fortunately, the Dalston tree has had owners who took/take the time to figure out how to make a patchwork of wood to save their leggy mulberry.
Move it? Hack it down? Obviously, never!!
Just enlarge the fence opening and add another plank. True love!
These photos are proof of why green spaces in cities are so important, especially in these difficult times we are all beginning to emerge from. They offer people beauty, tranquility and above all, hope for the future.
Love Your London recently visited the mulberry tree behind the Methodist Church in Colney Hatch / Muswell Hill. Fast forward to minute 9 of this video 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwaRVg1zkkE
Truly gnarly old souls. I so with I had one in my garden, they scream “I have a HUGE personality”.
There are some beautiful mulberries outside Forty Hall in Enfield – well worth a visit!
Being from the states I felt there wasn’t much I could do to help, but I am soooooooooo happy for this outcome! Congratulations, to everyone who fought to save it.
Give a thought to the wonderful old mulberry in the back garden at Kelmscott Manor in Kelmscott, near Lechlade, the summer home of William Morris. His children played on it in the late 1800’s. The tree was considered by Morris to be quite ancient even then. Kelmscott Manor was built in 1570, the same birth-year of East London’s Church Bell Foundry!
Wonderful to see them thriving and so many clearly loved and cared for
Congratulations on saving the Bethnal Green mulberry. I planted a maiden mulberry this year but in the meantime while I wait for it to fruit will forage from your wonderful list. Best wishes Jojo
I remember picking fruit from the one a Lesnes Abbey when I worked there in 1993. A really lovely tree.
There was another mulberry tree in hospital grounds in the East End – at St Clements’ Hospital on Bow Road. I sincerely hope that this wasn’t chopped down when they developed the site.
There is a wonderful mulberry in the grounds of St Ann’s Hospital, South Tottenham, and a Mulberry Tree community garden near Bruce Grove!
How wonderful that so many Mulberry trees have survived – against the odds. I particularly like the image above of the one in Mile End Place.