Yes if it's safe, it's a plant that I'm not expecting to root this way. However it has sprouted new leaves and a funny bulge at the side of the stem which could be the start of....ANYWAY I've already said too much!!
It's good idea to take precious cuttings carefuuly the recommended way. However, if I have an excess of undersize or poor quality cuttings, or I'm busy, I just plonk them in water.
This winter in my (very) cold greenhouse, I noticed that an Oleander and an Hydrangea had rooted. But only when the frost shattered my old glass milk bottles. I couldn't see in through a thick green layer of algae. How long they had been sitting there drying out I don't know, but planted in peat-free and stood in a saucer of water they survived and are now thriving.
It is always worth a try.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Well that plant I said about isn’t dead yet, in fact it still seems to be growing slightly but it hasn’t rooted either.
Some ‘After Eight’ mint has rooted but that wasn’t really a surprise!
Ive just tugged at one of my three bought pelargonium cuttings because the leaves were starting to brown and it wasn’t growing. No roots at all, so I’ve taken it out of the soil it was in, snipped it at the next node up (still green inside) and popped it in some water.
Fingers crossed it’ll root now, uncertain as it’s not a fresh cutting and was already starting to die back.
I seem to remember from my dim and distant past that pelargoniums will root in water but let the cut end dry out for a few days before putting them in it.
I've got a few things on the go at the moment in glasses and yoghurt pots - Aster Monch cuttings, which have been growing and trying to flower in nothing but water, have just started to get roots.
I've got some Pothos, variegated String of Pearls and sedum cuttings rooting out as well.
I've got penstemons (Garnet and one of the purply ones) just about ready to pot up, and a bit of clematis (Alpina "Willy") which I broke off accidentally back in spring and stuck in a jar of water has rooted so I'll pot that up as well.
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This winter in my (very) cold greenhouse, I noticed that an Oleander and an Hydrangea had rooted. But only when the frost shattered my old glass milk bottles. I couldn't see in through a thick green layer of algae. How long they had been sitting there drying out I don't know, but planted in peat-free and stood in a saucer of water they survived and are now thriving.
It is always worth a try.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Some ‘After Eight’ mint has rooted but that wasn’t really a surprise!
Ive just tugged at one of my three bought pelargonium cuttings because the leaves were starting to brown and it wasn’t growing. No roots at all, so I’ve taken it out of the soil it was in, snipped it at the next node up (still green inside) and popped it in some water.
Fingers crossed it’ll root now, uncertain as it’s not a fresh cutting and was already starting to die back.
I've got some Pothos, variegated String of Pearls and sedum cuttings rooting out as well.