I'm very happy to see green leaves on the gooseberry cutting I just rammed in the border in the Autumn. I have struck cuttings of heuchera and penstemons too, in pots, and Euphorbia Mellifera. Hebe and another (silver) Euphorbia cuttings have failed though.
you have got to have plenty of patience and not knock the cuttings out beforebefore they have rooted.two penstemon cuttings died on me today with roots on,were they not watered enough?i don't want to overwater them
I took Monty's advice on GW and when I pruned the dogwood, I just stuck the cuttings in the ground - they're all leafing now. It's the first propagation I've ever been successful with!
Like you cotty, I'm addicted to taking cuttings. Nature is just fantastic, throwing out new roots and shoots, with relentless determination to survive, resulting in plants for (more or less) for free. I have cuttings of nemesia, lupins, dahlia, fuschia, euonymous, hebe and cineraria at the moment. I get a fairly high rate of success with my cuttings but not nearly as successful with seeds, but I'll keep trying.
I got a bi-colour buddleja from one of the online suppliers, as normal this was a small plant (pretty much a cutting). I planted it out, 2 days later the dog snapped the twig above ground off. I was not best pleased but though what the hell and planted the snapped twig incase it was salvageable. I now have 2 plants - thanks dogs
at the moment i am taking cuttings without rooting powder because they seem to be successful on tv and in the magazines.i am not having much success.i should be putting plastic bags over the cuttings to keep the humidity in but i am trying to wing it,unsuccessfully,by keeping it simple.my sedums took really easily and i think I'm having the same hope for every other plant.
i have been unsuccessful with rudbeckia and scabious seeds so far this year.they have been placed in a heated propagator and they still haven't germinated.
Cotty, I wonder if it might be better to treat the scabious with a little less care; they're a wildflower after all & I've simply sown them into small pots with my own garden compost at several stages since Feb, warming them on a south facing windowsill. Got loads of them already & more on the way, hope they attract the butterflies.
Not so successful are lobelia; I sowed to instruction, initially with a plastic cover to keep humid. Only a few have made it to inch high plants, but I think I've got the right experience for 2014!
Got a ceanothus cutting from 2012, now a bushy, deep green plant, hooray! Happiest moment though, is the new jasmine I grew from berries on the mature plant I've had for 5years, & will be trained to grow against my kitchen wall so I get that lovely scent whenever it flowers.
i hate it when experts sow seeds with lots of grit or vermiculite and have lots of success.i use vermiculite but have had mixed results with astrantia,rudbeckia,Echinacea,scabious and miss wilmots ghost.
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I'm very happy to see green leaves on the gooseberry cutting I just rammed in the border in the Autumn. I have struck cuttings of heuchera and penstemons too, in pots, and Euphorbia Mellifera. Hebe and another (silver) Euphorbia cuttings have failed though.
you have got to have plenty of patience and not knock the cuttings out beforebefore they have rooted.two penstemon cuttings died on me today with roots on,were they not watered enough?i don't want to overwater them
I took Monty's advice on GW and when I pruned the dogwood, I just stuck the cuttings in the ground - they're all leafing now. It's the first propagation I've ever been successful with!
Like you cotty, I'm addicted to taking cuttings. Nature is just fantastic, throwing out new roots and shoots, with relentless determination to survive, resulting in plants for (more or less) for free. I have cuttings of nemesia, lupins, dahlia, fuschia, euonymous, hebe and cineraria at the moment. I get a fairly high rate of success with my cuttings but not nearly as successful with seeds, but I'll keep trying.
I got a bi-colour buddleja from one of the online suppliers, as normal this was a small plant (pretty much a cutting). I planted it out, 2 days later the dog snapped the twig above ground off. I was not best pleased but though what the hell and planted the snapped twig incase it was salvageable. I now have 2 plants - thanks dogs
A happy accident, Andy.
at the moment i am taking cuttings without rooting powder because they seem to be successful on tv and in the magazines.i am not having much success.i should be putting plastic bags over the cuttings to keep the humidity in but i am trying to wing it,unsuccessfully,by keeping it simple.my sedums took really easily and i think I'm having the same hope for every other plant.
i have been unsuccessful with rudbeckia and scabious seeds so far this year.they have been placed in a heated propagator and they still haven't germinated.
Cotty, I wonder if it might be better to treat the scabious with a little less care; they're a wildflower after all & I've simply sown them into small pots with my own garden compost at several stages since Feb, warming them on a south facing windowsill. Got loads of them already & more on the way, hope they attract the butterflies.
Not so successful are lobelia; I sowed to instruction, initially with a plastic cover to keep humid. Only a few have made it to inch high plants, but I think I've got the right experience for 2014!
Got a ceanothus cutting from 2012, now a bushy, deep green plant, hooray! Happiest moment though, is the new jasmine I grew from berries on the mature plant I've had for 5years, & will be trained to grow against my kitchen wall so I get that lovely scent whenever it flowers.
i hate it when experts sow seeds with lots of grit or vermiculite and have lots of success.i use vermiculite but have had mixed results with astrantia,rudbeckia,Echinacea,scabious and miss wilmots ghost.
but i will percivier dag namit!