I think it's worth trying anything. There's nothing to lose. I wonder if there's an optimum time, though. @Rosa Glauca2 Rosa glauca - my absolute favourite rose.
Interesting about tamarisk. I do pass a few, and might cheekily come home with a little sample. I didn’t know hydrangeas would root in water? I have taken cuttings and got them to root in compost / vermiculite mix with a plastic bag on top. However I did find it a faff, and because they are rather ugly, they got banished to the garage window where I kept forgetting about them. A jamjar on the kitchen or bathroom windowsill would be much easier, and I can watch out for roots forming. My hebes have all worked well, now out in pots. What about weeping willow? The few snippings I’ve brought home have just shrivelled up and died. I’d have thought they would have taken easily.
Hydrangeas root really well in water. I have taken literally dozens, just for the easy gratification. Can't shift for hydrangeas in my garden, or those of my friends... The parent plant was a cutting pinched from the local John Lewis car park about 20 years ago... (Insert shame-faced emoji here.)
Wow, that’s great, Vole, I’ve got quite a few hydrangeas but room for loads more. We have very little colour in the garden when the camellias and rhododendrons fade, so they’ll be very welcome. Will make a start.
Hydrangea has always worked for me, where other things fail. Have never succeeded with camellias or rhododendrons, but have done so with euonymus (like a weed), honeysuckle, lonicera, spirea, sedum, laurel, fuchsia, forsythia, hebe, privet, brunnera, stachys, and all manner of other things I can't recall or identify. Everything in water on the windowsill, although I also have secondary double glazing in the kitchen which has a big gap between the panes and I use that as a greenhouse, mainly because I can't knock them over and can still get to the kitchen sink. I'm not much of a gardener, but I'm not bad at cuttings.
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I wonder if there's an optimum time, though. @Rosa Glauca2
Rosa glauca - my absolute favourite rose.
I didn’t know hydrangeas would root in water? I have taken cuttings and got them to root in compost / vermiculite mix with a plastic bag on top. However I did find it a faff, and because they are rather ugly, they got banished to the garage window where I kept forgetting about them. A jamjar on the kitchen or bathroom windowsill would be much easier, and I can watch out for roots forming.
My hebes have all worked well, now out in pots.
What about weeping willow? The few snippings I’ve brought home have just shrivelled up and died. I’d have thought they would have taken easily.