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St Andrews Garden, Victoria Australia

Mulberry Trees

 

St Andrews Garden, Victoria Australia - there are three varieties of Mulberry in the St Andrews Orchard -

There was an existing tree which was about 20 years old and very small and had had a hard life - The tree has been mulched with good compost and appears to be growing better - it produces very tasty fruit red black in colour the second tree - a white mulberry was Planted in the winter of 2007 and flowered producing a great number of fruit in the first season - however these are not as tasty as the other fruit

the third tree is a black mulberry planted in the spring of 2008 - it has very large dark green leaves and has put on a great deal of growth -