• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • r ranson
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • John F Dean
  • Jay Angler
  • paul wheaton
stewards:
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Burra Maluca
  • Joseph Lofthouse
master gardeners:
  • Timothy Norton
  • Christopher Weeks
gardeners:
  • Jeremy VanGelder
  • Maieshe Ljin
  • Nina Surya

Saving/spreading red mulberries

 
Posts: 49
Location: South/Southwestern Finland
8
hugelkultur trees urban
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Hi everyone!

I've been looking at a lot of catalogues, in europe and in the US, and what I've seen is that there is only hybrid morus rubras , no true red mulberries anywhere. And isn't that the problem, regarding them? That the morus alba's are faster spreaders and cross pollinate with rubras, so the native tree is endangered.
Now I don't want to turn this into a debate about invasive species, and are ANY species invasive, or just survival of the fittest...but I'd like really to plant dozen or so real red mulberries to my home island in Finland. And yes, that's really not the "native" enviroment either, but hey, there is no danger of cross pollination, since really no-one here grows mulberry, even though it survives provenly here (on arboretum grounds at least).

So how to get seeds/seedlings here? I have really no clue, does anyone?

-Janne
 
Posts: 947
Location: Graham, Washington [Zone 7b, 47.041 Latitude] 41inches average annual rainfall, cool summer drought
56
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Here's one option for you.

 
gardener
Posts: 6814
Location: Arkansas - Zone 7B/8A stoney, sandy loam soil pH 6.5
1657
hugelkultur dog forest garden duck fish fungi hunting books chicken writing homestead
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
The first thing to do is find out if there are any restrictions on importing vegetation like trees.

If there are no import restrictions then you should be able to locate several companies that can ship trees to you.
Bear in mind though that some companies do not ship overseas, this is usually due to import restrictions though.

You should be able to locate some nurseries in Europe that have these trees available, Germany, England or France for examples.
 
Do not set lab on fire. Or this tiny ad:
Learn Permaculture through a little hard work
https://wheaton-labs.com/bootcamp
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic