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  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    GWRS said:
    Bullfinch can’t remember exactly but at least 6 months 🌹 
    How did they look (above ground) after a month or two?

    All my cuttings result in black twigs, so I’ve given up.
  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    I up-potted two Berberis thunbergi 'Orange Rocket' until I can get down to the cabin place to plant them out.  They were root-bound in the nursery pots and drying out too fast.  I moved two elephant ears (Alocasia calidora) outdoors in a shady spot in the back garden to see if they will put on more leaves than they have done in the semi-outdoor atrium I've had them in since March.  I also fertilized all my plants in the semi-outdoor atrium (mostly ferns and a dwarf Schefflera tree).  That should keep them happy for a few weeks.
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  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    My rose cuttings are taken in Autumn - October - November time. I dig a trench 6" deep approx a foot wide but you could make yours less wide if you don't have the space @bullfinch , line it with horticultural gravel, add plenty of good garden soil and mix in some compost and bone meal, blood fish & bone or growmore, stamp it all down to make it level, water well, push a bamboo stick or similar to make holes for the cuttings.  Gently push rose cuttings into holes, firm around the cuttings so they won't move in a strong wind. I now leave the cuttings until around May time, so they have a few months to either grow roots or die off.  You can tell if they have rooted when little leaf nodes appear, I don't have the success rate that GWRS, just 2 out of 5 last winter.  Good luck.
  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    Thank you @GWRS and @Guernsey Donkey2, I hope I will have some success, they look a bit forlorn, just stems poking out of the soil!
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    I've been busy painting the woodshed this morning, not exactly gardening but I have been in the garden.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    edited October 2019
    Digging up turf, putting in leaf mould and garden compost, planting box.

    Hard, shirt-off, work...I got bitten by something about 6mm long on the shoulder. I flicked it off, red showed and it swelled up quickly, so the wife gave me an antihistamine.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Spent day at allotment , lots done , also took 4 Rose cuttings 
    Need to  cut lawns now that garden waste bin emptied 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Also moved two large conifers into planters, framing the entrance to the garden
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Yesterday was spent emptying 2 compost bins, majority of contents were well rotted. Started filling again with old bedding plants etc.
    Today potted up narcissi "Tete a tete" and "Snow Baby" and also pots of muscari.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Showers on & off all day meant only got a bit of dead heading and taking off some faded hosta leaves. 
    AB Still learning

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