My sister just corrupt two mulberry tree Tree for her yard . AnIllinois Everbearingand aSilk Hope . ThoughI have grown the former , I was not conversant with the latter , so I looked it up .
The first web site I came across was a North Carolina State Extension varlet , which states :
“ Morus rubra‘Silk Hope ’ , commonly call Silk Hope cherry-red mulberry is a aboriginal tree diagram species and has both edible and ornamental features . It is a hybrid between red mulberry and white mulberry tree . It can live up to 125 years but the weedy invading character is not appealing . It is more cold brave than shameful mulberry tree . ”
What a horrific description of a productive and edible tree . Never mind the fact that if this Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is a hybrid between the aboriginal Red and the introduced white then it is n’t in reality a true indigene – this write - up is a travesty and really highlights how anti - edible our mainstream gardening has become .
Contrast this write - up to theone found on the website of Peaceful Heritage Nurseryin Kentucky :
“ Excellent quality , large mulberry mature for a farseeing time of year , up to several months ! Silk Hope mulberry is similar to Illinois Everbearing in flavor , appearance , and fruit habit . A J Bullard , a North Carolina fruit fancier , ground the original tree in Silk Hope , NC . An excellent choice for the South because it is not as prostrate to getting popcorn disease , which is a fungous disease mulberries can get in the South . Reports say it is very repellent . ”
That ’s much better . Mulberries are an fantabulous fruit tree and well - deserving growing . But it ’s not just the prolongation offices that are anti - fruit tree diagram . I ’ve hear multiple masses plain about how “ mussy ” a pear tree tree is , or how “ awed ” mulberries stain or how they just “ get way too many fruit . ”
That ’s food for thought , idiots . consume some , bear on some , give the quietus away .
Here ’s another example of this type of normie thinking . A few years ago I read an consultation with my friend Eddy in South Florida :
He grew amazing garden with loads of tropic fruit in his tiny backyard .
When I visited his vicinity a few weeks ago , he had deal his house to a new owner – who had cut down multiple fruit trees , admit his fertile soursop tree diagram , put back it instead with a little cheap storage shed .
Talk about stunned ! They could betray the leaves and yield from that soursop for good money . I get repeated requests when I pen about the coinage . Like this input on YouTube :
But no . Let ’s just cut it down and put in a junky little entrepot shed instead .
I wrote abouta similar situation with a adorable persimmon treehalf a decennium ago .
Listen … if you ’re growing your own food and planting Tree for the hereafter , you ’re the saucy one . Not the people at extension offices or in your neighborhood who whine about “ mussy trees . ”
The consensus is consistently wrong . And most masses are idiots .
