You haven’t specified where you are from, so it’s hard to be able to tell you the best place to buy a Weeping Mulberry tree from. The best place to look, and to get advice from, would be your local garden center, though you could look online, too.
There is a wide variety of Weeping Mulberry trees, both male and female, so you can choose from different colors and trees that bear fruit. They are deciduous trees, and this means that they lose their leaves in winter. They grow in the wild throughout North America and Asia, and they were previously cultivated as food for silk worms. As this industry became less popular, so did the cultivation of fruit-bearing mulberry trees, and so nowadays, the most popular type is the fruitless kind.
Depending upon type, a Weeping Mulberry tree can be anything from 20 to 60 feet tall, with a wide crown of branches at the peak. After four or five years of growth, the female variety will bear fruit, and again, the variety of tree determines what color the berries will be. White mulberries produce pink, white and purple varieties of fruit, and the red mulberry produces dark red and purple berries. You can get black mulberry trees, but they are quite rare and need a warm climate. White mulberries are the easiest to grow of them all.
The more common male mulberry varieties are usually ‘Stribling,’ ‘Kingan,’ or ‘Urban.’ They all need to be planted in full sunlight, with very little shade. They will also need lots of water in their first two years, and will need staking to support them. Because they grow to such large heights, make sure that you do not plant them too close to buildings because their roots can cause lots of damage.
There is a wide variety of Weeping Mulberry trees, both male and female, so you can choose from different colors and trees that bear fruit. They are deciduous trees, and this means that they lose their leaves in winter. They grow in the wild throughout North America and Asia, and they were previously cultivated as food for silk worms. As this industry became less popular, so did the cultivation of fruit-bearing mulberry trees, and so nowadays, the most popular type is the fruitless kind.
Depending upon type, a Weeping Mulberry tree can be anything from 20 to 60 feet tall, with a wide crown of branches at the peak. After four or five years of growth, the female variety will bear fruit, and again, the variety of tree determines what color the berries will be. White mulberries produce pink, white and purple varieties of fruit, and the red mulberry produces dark red and purple berries. You can get black mulberry trees, but they are quite rare and need a warm climate. White mulberries are the easiest to grow of them all.
The more common male mulberry varieties are usually ‘Stribling,’ ‘Kingan,’ or ‘Urban.’ They all need to be planted in full sunlight, with very little shade. They will also need lots of water in their first two years, and will need staking to support them. Because they grow to such large heights, make sure that you do not plant them too close to buildings because their roots can cause lots of damage.
