Our little house in Saignon has a lovely Mulberry in the front yard. It has to be cut back every year. It is called pollarding. It is started when the tree reaches its desired height. I bought a Mulberry three years ago here in Florida. I planted it near my olive trees to create a Provencal bed. It was no bigger that a pencil. Well, it grew faster than a weed and was too tall and too shady, in three years it went from one foot tall to 12 feet (2 Metres) tall. This year I cut it back to the main branches. It had already leafed out. For a week and a half it just looked dead and I worried. Today it has many, many little sprouts Woo-Hoo.
