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[Mark_Bugaieski@rlicorp.com]

My two most invasive plants are mulberries and hedge (osage orange).  I
find seedlings all over the place I regularly have to squirt with round-up.
Small price to pay for the migrating grosbeaks I saw gobbling the green
fruit last spring as well as keeping the nesting birds well-fed later in
the summer.

Mind tend to sprout along field edges.  My guess is there'd be too much
shade under your oaks if they're established, but rest assured the birds
will be "planting" the seeds there.

Mark


Message: 6
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:53:25 -0600
From: "Dave Griffin" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Mulberry cuttings - where can you get?
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Hello all,


> Stephen Sadler, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> > It's too bad so few people have fruiting
> > mulberries; I was musing the other day about why they aren't popular.

I am leary of mulberries because I've heard the are extremely invasive and
I don't want any more weed problems in my good quality oak woods. Does
anyone know about the accuracy of their reputation for being invasive?

Dave