Celeste- Wow, that is just breathtaking! Michael- You have me a little concerned about the color but I wonder if in the south here the sun would tone the color down? I'm loving the color I see in the pictures but I know that's different then seeing it in person. Lynn- Thank you for telling me about RU having it under a different name. I had looked on there to see if they ha it because I wanted to add it too my order coming this month but didn't see it listed. Now I know what I can add it if I want which I think I may.Yay! I was hoping somone might grow it as a cascading shrub as that is how I was thinking of growing it. How would you think it would look in a bed with Buff Beauty (on arbor), Cornelia, Charlstonian (small pillar), Blumenschmidt, Belinda, and Mrs.D Cross? I would put Rosa Uetersen at the far end as a cascading shrub. What do you all think? Overall you all seem very happy with it. Looks like I will be adding her to my order.:O) Now if this rain will ever let up enough to dry out the ground so I can get some work done out there. This has been the wettest/coldest winter in a loong time. ~Meghan

There is some information at HelpMeFind. One of the commenters was growing it in zone 5. Many favorable comments. Here is a link that might be useful: HMF

The kitchen cabinets are DEFINITELY NOT the same as their other furniture. In fact, it was the fear of having Malm-type dresser drawers for kitchen drawers that had DH saying "No way" to IKEA kitchens. At first. I purchased a kitchen drawer stack to "prove" to him that they were a completely different animal. Once he saw the real thing in real use, he was sold. The drawers have a 1/2" bottom and are very strong and sturdy. It is a Blum Tandembox, after all. Go check them out yourself and see and know you are not limited to the IKEA door styles. Any custom door company can make doors for the cabinets. They only need the measurements. I love my IKEA cabs!

Fruitless (male) mulberries were very popular in our neighborhood when developed during the late 1960s. A few are still doing well, but most declined in the 25 to 35 year age range. Can be a very nice fast growing shade tree, but here are a few comments after living with a couple of them in a small yard for over a decade: Three feet from the PL could be tight if there is a fence or other hard-scaping - Trunk will eventually reach ~3 ft in diameter plus another foot or so for root lift around the base. Our PO planted one only about 7 ft from the house slab. While way too close for its eventually large trunk, the roots didn't cause any foundation or drain problems. "Fruitless" does not mean "flowerless" - The male flowers are numerous, large, and produce MUCH pollen. Not bad over a lawn, but can make a mess over vehicles, pools, gutters, or other spaces where the piles of flower debris and/or yellow dust would be a problem. As mentioned earlier, seems your neighbor's could still be an immature female tree, then would also deal with the fruits. They grow fast and want to branch low and often. Makes them wonderful climbing trees, but can require more trimming (large + fast growth) on urban lots than most others. Removing new whips a couple times a year while still small enough to be clipped with a pole pruner was much better than fixing the frequent crossed and sagging-towards-the-ground branches later with a saw. They want to produce very dense shade. More shade tolerant turfs, like St. Augustine, can be kept alive to within a few feet of the trunk with the right exposure and pruning. May not be much of a change factor if the tree is to your north. But if it's on your south that close to the PL, it could eventually change what can grow in something like a 18 foot arc of your yard. Not necessarily a bad thing. Assuming you were diplomatic in asking to kill you neighbor's tree, seems unreasonable for them to get angry over your concerns about such an eventually large and rampant grower that close to your PL. Maybe there's still a window to suggest/offer moving it or replacing with an alternative better for both of you in that location.