Dear Alexis, I have a young mulberry from root stock and growing well this first summer but I haven't looked so long and lovingly at the leaf and now will do so...also it has one lower branch and I'm wondering if I should prune off in the winter to let the trunk grow upwards without it in its way to forming a canopy. I recently was invited to pick mulberries at a friend's and being inside the umbrella of the great trees was wonderful, and sticky, and rewarding as I made lots of delicious jam. Thank you for having and sharing your rapture. Best, Barbara Baer, Forestville
Wonderful, thanks so much. Mulberry trees remind me of the beautiful papers used in Asia since at least the 8th century from the paper mulberry, a close cousin of your friend. Commonly called rice paper, mulberry paper is still widely used in fine art printmaking. It also has an ancient history in textiles. Jim in Oakland.
I loved this. One of the things I would ask my students to do in ecoprint workshops was to contemplate one of the leaves they had brought with them and to write about it for five minutes. Mostly they were lucky to make a paragraph but every now and then a jewel would appear. This too is a jewel. Thank you.
I was reading The Garden Against Time today and then your sub stack popped up. So nice to be saturated in garden readings. Have The Lighteaters in my stack at home. It is so easy to get caught up in the "work" of gardening and forget about the bigger picture.
Dear Alexis, I have a young mulberry from root stock and growing well this first summer but I haven't looked so long and lovingly at the leaf and now will do so...also it has one lower branch and I'm wondering if I should prune off in the winter to let the trunk grow upwards without it in its way to forming a canopy. I recently was invited to pick mulberries at a friend's and being inside the umbrella of the great trees was wonderful, and sticky, and rewarding as I made lots of delicious jam. Thank you for having and sharing your rapture. Best, Barbara Baer, Forestville
Another student of the leaves! Lovely and resonant.
You are one of my spooky-mentors-at-a-distance on this kind of close observational writing. 🙏
Wonderful, thanks so much. Mulberry trees remind me of the beautiful papers used in Asia since at least the 8th century from the paper mulberry, a close cousin of your friend. Commonly called rice paper, mulberry paper is still widely used in fine art printmaking. It also has an ancient history in textiles. Jim in Oakland.
I loved this. One of the things I would ask my students to do in ecoprint workshops was to contemplate one of the leaves they had brought with them and to write about it for five minutes. Mostly they were lucky to make a paragraph but every now and then a jewel would appear. This too is a jewel. Thank you.
I was reading The Garden Against Time today and then your sub stack popped up. So nice to be saturated in garden readings. Have The Lighteaters in my stack at home. It is so easy to get caught up in the "work" of gardening and forget about the bigger picture.