Pollarding Mulberry Trees: What It Is, When to Do It, and Why Most Home Growers Should Think Twice

Pollarding Mulberry Trees: What It Is, When to Do It, and Why Most Home Growers Should Think Twice

Last spring, a reader from the UK emailed me a photo that stopped me mid-coffee. It showed what looked like a fist-sized cluster of knobby stumps at the top of a mulberry trunk, all sprouting a wild, chaotic halo of whip-thin new shoots reaching in every direction. Her message was worried: Is my tree dying? … Read more