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Mullberry
Any one else received their Mulberry Bush - Charlotte Russe, raved about for being plant of the year.
My wife received hers this morning from Suttons, not quite sure what to expect but this is it, no instructions or even a label on the pot.
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Do you want to plant it in the ground or grow it in a pot? It's a young plant so will take a few years before it will produce fruit. RHS advice is here:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/fruit/Mulberries
If you plant it in the ground, bear in mind the eventual size of the tree - if it's the smaller black mulberry, that will be about 30ft. White or red species and you're looking at 70ft or so.
Thanks Bob, this is a dwarf so will grow to 1.5 meters tall, and its going to take a while to get there. Suttons say this should fruit in first year. I think we were both expecting too much, some thing like the picture on the suttons page.
http://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Fruit/Soft+Fruit/All+Soft+Fruit/Mulberry++Charlotte+Russe+1+P9_264714.htm#CMRTabs1
Here's mine... ordered in February and delivered in early September.
It has grown a good few inches since being planted-up.
Hopefully yours will come back with vigour in the Spring. I'm looking forward to the first crop!
That looks good Clematiscrazy, we were expecting ours to look like this .... but it should be fine once it has grown a little.