"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ...
In article , Larry
Stoter writes
Why does he want a large specimen?

Because he's 80, he opens his 6 acres to the public about twenty times a
year and all his other fruit specimen trees including a medlar and a
walnut are mature. He wants one in a 50 litre pot size.

janet
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He's probably still got time to wait for a younger one to mature. The late Collingwood ('Cherry') Ingram was still planting cherries
in his 90s and grumbling that they only lived about 50 years.

Rod

(Larry Stoter) wrote in message .co.uk...
Paul Kelly wrote:

"Larry Stoter" wrote in message
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Janet Tweedy wrote:
For anybody who wants to sample ......... Hatfield House (~20 miles N of
London) gardens have 4 large, old mulberries. Around about now, they
have pounds of fruit. The branches come down sufficiently low that it is
not obvious you are stuffing yourself. Although, the dark red lips and
generally sticky appearance can attract some odd looks ......


the playing field opposite my house has a mulberry dating form the time of
the abortive attempt to develop a native silk trade. Wonderfully old and
tactile tree - with mulberries just come to full ripeness!


pk

Most old black mulberries in the UK date from this attempt - by Charles
II, I believe. I think that he contributed quite a large sum of money to
subsidise the plantings and many thousands of trees were planted,
mainly, I would guess in SE England and E Anglia.

A pity that silk moth caterpillars only eat white mulberry leaves .....

An early example of misunderstanding which I fear has only got worse.

This is not correct. The caterpillars of Bombyx mori, The Mulbery Silk
Moth
Will eay BOTH kinds of mulberry. They prefer the white though. They
are also sometimes reared by enthusiasts on Lettuce!
--
Neil Jones- http://www.butterflyguy.com/
"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn
Bog National Nature Reserve

Janet Tweedy wrote in message ...
In article , Larry
Stoter writes
Janet Tweedy wrote:

A very keen gardener I know wants to buy a large Morus nigra (in spite
of me telling them how awful mine had been) He can't seem to find any
stockists of large 50 litre pot grown trees Any one know of a supplier?

Janet

Why does he want a large specimen?



Because he's 80, he opens his 6 acres to the public about twenty times a
year and all his other fruit specimen trees including a medlar and a
walnut are mature. He wants one in a 50 litre pot size.

janet

If you still have yours I would think that digging it out with a jcb
and trundling it over to him after leaf fall would not cost a lot more
than one in a 50 litre pot, which apparently you can't get anyway.

There are some people who advertise sometimes in the Garden ( but not
the current issue) that they specialise in full-size trees in pots.

(billtheburglar) wrote in message . com...
Janet Tweedy wrote in message ...
In article , Larry
Stoter writes
Janet Tweedy wrote:

A very keen gardener I know wants to buy a large Morus nigra (in spite
of me telling them how awful mine had been) He can't seem to find any
stockists of large 50 litre pot grown trees Any one know of a supplier?

Janet

Why does he want a large specimen?



Because he's 80, he opens his 6 acres to the public about twenty times a
year and all his other fruit specimen trees including a medlar and a
walnut are mature. He wants one in a 50 litre pot size.

janet

If you still have yours I would think that digging it out with a jcb
and trundling it over to him after leaf fall would not cost a lot more
than one in a 50 litre pot, which apparently you can't get anyway.

There are some people who advertise sometimes in the Garden ( but not
the current issue) that they specialise in full-size trees in pots.

.... and their name came back to me overnight: http://www.pantiles-nurseries.co.uk/