Show Off Your Mulberry Bonsai

[SlowMovingWaters]

Ever since planting a few mulberry trees 3 years ago I've been utterly fascinated with the growth characteristics of this wonderful tree. Leaf shape is good, reduces drastically, fruits easily (cultivar dependent), very winter hardy etc. Shame we don't see more mulberry projects on bnut

Please share your mulberries, and any advise.

 

[dick benbow]

Was hopeful to see some photos. They foster some special memories as a young man fishing in Ohio. During fruiting season the carp in this one lake would swarm underneath and take the fruit as it fell in. I figured out a way to tie a fly with purple colored deerhair and fish for them.
I remember one day with a really nice one on, a little blonde headed kid watching me fighting the fish for an extended period of time. Finally he broke his silence and said " hey mister, when you gonna reel him in?" LOL

 

[Bonsai 202]

Bonsai 202

Ever since planting a few mulberry trees 3 years ago I've been utterly fascinated with the growth characteristics of this wonderful tree. Leaf shape is good, reduces drastically, fruits easily (cultivar dependent), very winter hardy etc. Shame we don't see more mulberry projects on bnut

Please share your mulberries, and any advise.

I'm just got into collecting bonsai seriously myself and I dug up a mulberry near the title basin in Washington DC is very good routes and I think is going to be nice with some more training.

 

[bdwarner]

Bump.

Nobody has any mulberry trees?

When I lived in midtown Detroit on my street were good sized mulberries that at the same time would usually drop the majority of their berries and turn the streets purple with the juice. All of them were too big to be diggable. My buddy did pick up 2 small mulberries at a club auction a few months ago, he said he was going to plant them in his backyard and grow them out. I think a mulberry would be a great local specimen.

 

[Oliver Muscio]

I've got a couple in the ground, just as chopped stumps with one-year old growth for the eventual continuation of their trunks. Check back with me in a few years--if I am still around.
Oliver

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Here is one of two that belong to my buddy Ron in Iowa. He collectd this one probably close to 20 years ago. Usually does well at the state fair, and always produces berries.

 

[Alain]

i have a couple of mulberry projects but for the moment the biggest one is 6' tall and not even 1/2" thick...

So it can't be called a 'Mulberry bonsai' but I really wish it will be in a couple of years!

 

[milehigh_7]

Walter's

Walter has one here:
http://walter-pall-bonsai.blogspot.com/2009/10/white-mulberry-and-linden.html

 

[tree4me]

Here's a link to some older pics of one I still have. Will add some updates.
http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?7676-Mulberry-advise-and-critique

 

[milehigh_7]

I actually picked up 4 dwarf Morus nigra. I want to keep at least 1 because they look great but I bought them to sell. I think they will make fantastic subjects.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

As you can see from the few examples, mulberry has fairly coarse twig structure. Probably best for medium to larger size bonsai. As trees go, they can live a fairly long time. I have an example from "the wild", pictures I took while visiting Monticello, the home of 2nd president of USA, Thomas Jefferson. Of the trees planted while Jefferson owned the plantation, only a couple oaks, one juniper and a couple mulberries survived. The rest of the trees were planted by subsequent owners to replace older trees that were removed.

First image, white ash on the left, ancient T. Jefferson era mulberry on the right. Monticello in the middle. Second image is just the mulberry - Morus papyrifera -the Paper mulberry. This is the mulberry used to make paper and tapa cloth.




Here is an ancient Linden, Tilia cordata, it was planted after Jefferson, but before the plantation became a national monument.



If you ever get to Charlottesville Virginia, definitely plan a day or 2 for Monticello, I only have a half day, and definitely still want to come back and explore further. Jefferson was a "plant explorer", brought in many new species to the USA for trials at his plantation, and he often experimented with USA native plants. Lots to see there.

 

[iant]

Ok also not a bonsai. It's from Brent and it's a contorted mulberry. Only had it a year. No fruit yet. Still a stick in a pot.
Ian

 

[Rodney Strain]

Mulberry in training 2020 Oct

 

[Joe Dupre']

Here's one I dug in Feb. of this year. This pic was taken in May. Really vigorous growers!

 

[Joe Dupre']

Oh, this is what it started as in Feb. I pruned off most of the small branches

 

[Carol 83]

Mine from Zach Smith. His photo from back in March before I got it. It's dark and raining outside, so no new picture.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Here's a small one I sold a few years ago...


...I sold it when I started working on this one....

...getting pretty close to nice. I love the leaves, which reduce well. It is in the Fig family which has lots of tough trees.
Here's one I dug this fall and will be a monster some day. (The pot is 20 inches wide for scale.)...

Actually, it is really them, about seven individuals.

 

[stu929]

Love seeing this, there are mulberries all over the place in central pa... I was eyeing two today as yamadori. Only issue if most of what I is is not very weathered (large trees but boring trunk features)

 

[Drohnen]

I just got this tree into the ground two or three weeks ago in my new raised bed made from everything available in my yard, medium included

I do not know what kind of mulberry it is but I have a large 30 footer in the yard. Started cuttings recently, too.

 

[Lorax7]

I’ve got one that’s a recent air layer. It’s nowhere near being bonsai yet, though.