I've had no luck with the beads: in the time it took some plectranthus to fool me into thinking they were rooting, but turns out to be rotting, the bit I just shoved into a space in the pot has rooted and doubled in size!
On a more positive note, Euphorbia hypericifolia(?) 'Silverfog' has begun rooting in less than a week!
6/6 success with potentilla, and I've just potted them up. Some of them have flower buds, but I've nipped those off. Have just put more cuttings into jars of water: Azalea/Rhododendron luteum, hardy geranium and fuchsia.
Last week I put some Sedum spectabile in a flower arrangement for church, and they were still looking good when the arrangement was replaced with a new one a week later, so I brought them home and stuck them in a vase. By the time I threw them away, they were rooting. Will remember this next time I'm fundraising!
When you pot up the fuchsia cuttings put a little bit of compost in the bottom the pot then stand the cutting on that then gently trickle compost on top. Don’t press it down, they like their roots free.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Do you mean the shrubby potentilla or the other one? I have both but would like to propagate the other kind. I don't think it's called ' the other one'
Can’t you just chop bits from the roots on that one? I’m taking my shrubby one out this winter, it’s untidy, horrible yellow flowers and not for long. I need to be ruthless😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Mines in a&e. Unlikely to survive. If it does, I'll bung it out of sight somewhere.. Is that all you have to do with the 'others' what are they called?@Lyn? Can I do it with snow in summer too?
Didn't know potentilla would root in water. I have a pretty pink one I'd like to multiply.
I took some penstemon, buddleia and willow cuttings about 10 days ago. The weeping willow has already started but nothing on the others yet. I assume penstemon root more quickly if done earlier in the season but am happy to wait.
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Do you mean the shrubby potentilla or the other one? I have both but would like to propagate the other kind. I don't think it's called ' the other one'
Shrubby, with white flowers. Don't know its name, I nicked it from the public space where it was growing. I've never met the other one.
I believe all the willow family grow roots at the drop of a hat. Legend has it that you can stick a cricket bat in the ground and it will grow, I'd love to know if anyone's tried it.
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On a more positive note, Euphorbia hypericifolia(?) 'Silverfog' has begun rooting in less than a week!
Last week I put some Sedum spectabile in a flower arrangement for church, and they were still looking good when the arrangement was replaced with a new one a week later, so I brought them home and stuck them in a vase. By the time I threw them away, they were rooting. Will remember this next time I'm fundraising!
I’m taking my shrubby one out this winter, it’s untidy, horrible yellow flowers and not for long. I need to be ruthless😀
Is that all you have to do with the 'others' what are they called?@Lyn? Can I do it with snow in summer too?
I took some penstemon, buddleia and willow cuttings about 10 days ago. The weeping willow has already started but nothing on the others yet. I assume penstemon root more quickly if done earlier in the season but am happy to wait.