If you are in a city, it's good to look for front gardens that grow lots of VB. Very often plants will seed in the street gutters and you can dig them up and have a load of new, free plants. We have a lot of those gardens near me in London. Ox eye daisies, calendula and FMNs seed freely in the road too. But then we have had mass council cuts so the paving only gets sprayed every three years. There has been an explosion of all sorts of plant life.
I bought one plant of VB and one Gaura last spring, (P9 pot size) and got 4 good cuttings off each. I could have had more, but wanted to have my plant and grow the offspring Waiting to see how well they have survived winter in the GH - I cut them back a few days ago and most VB stems still looked green, nothing showing on the Gauras yet. We are still in depths of winter here, new snow falling on remnants of the old!
I am new to gardening (apart from growing veg) and the forum too Jack. I have some VB growing in my front garden cottage-style border - they were the first flowering plants I bought, grew to around 2m, flowered like crazy and they survived a recent 7” dump of snow overnight and are now growing away like little rockets.
Inspired by Monty doing the same on GW, I took some cuttings, covered the pots with plastic bags as he said and they were doing well indoors, so I moved them to my unheated poly and they all withered and died! I am going to take some more and start them in the poly instead of heated indoors and see if that works - maybe the shock of starting indoors then moving them was too much? No idea... I guess we learn from failures as much as successes!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
In a previous post entitled "Verbena" I took the advice of @joycegoldenlily and when I had pruned my Verbena I just put cuttings in a pot of compost and now after a couple of weeks they are still looking healthy. Now hoping I shall have some more plants growing this summer. Only had the one before and do like them.
Inspired by Monty doing the same on GW, I took some cuttings, covered the pots with plastic bags as he said and they were doing well indoors, so I moved them to my unheated poly and they all withered and died!
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Waiting to see how well they have survived winter in the GH - I cut them back a few days ago and most VB stems still looked green, nothing showing on the Gauras yet. We are still in depths of winter here, new snow falling on remnants of the old!
Inspired by Monty doing the same on GW, I took some cuttings, covered the pots with plastic bags as he said and they were doing well indoors, so I moved them to my unheated poly and they all withered and died! I am going to take some more and start them in the poly instead of heated indoors and see if that works - maybe the shock of starting indoors then moving them was too much? No idea... I guess we learn from failures as much as successes!
I had pruned my Verbena I just put cuttings in a pot of compost and now after a couple of weeks they are still looking healthy. Now hoping I shall have some more plants growing this summer. Only had the one before and do like them.