I did it!!!

A couple of months back I attempted to propogate Box Hedging, Spirea Little Princess and Hydrangeas!

Guess which one worked! Yup- the Hydrangea!!!

Do I move it indoors now? The foilage above soil level in the pot hasnt changed at all in the 2 months- but its spawned quite a substantial volume of roots!

 

Well done Kriss. It's great when trials succeed.

 

Excellent Still looking good for the Blackcurrant cuttings i've taken for the communal garden.

 

Well done Kriss. Cuttings seem to be one of those magic things that you can either do or you can't.

Unfortunately, I seem to be stuck in the 'can't' group. I've had extremely limited success with cuttings so far. Although one year, after pruning the goosegog bush, I felt it a shame to just chuck the clippings, so I stuck some in the ground and forgot about them. The following spring I had several new goosegog bushes coming along.

 

Well done Kriss - I love taking cuttings off allsorts, occasionally I've rooted things that all the books say can't be or are very hard to be propergated by cuttings. You get a great feeling out of producing your own plants :thumb:

 

Hydrangeas, I can't stand them, so you have my condolences :D Nah, I'm just kidding, well done! :thumb:

 

my son's cuttings are all doing well - we have put them in the cold frame. There are too many to bring them in, so I have some polystyrene trays from the market and will put them ion there. I have no doubt we will lose a few - but we did the same last year and had many that survived.

we have various varieties of: weigela, spirea, penstemons, hebes, lavender, euonymous along with a plant from friends gardens that need identifying!

He has also potted up some perennials that needed taking out of the garden - that would have gone on the compost heap.

So he should have some things to sell in the spring.

 

In the summer I was watching an Alan Titchmarsh gardening programme and he was in someones garden who had made some pom pom balls in box , as I have a box in a pot I fancied a go at that .

So I stripped all the leaves from the branches just leaving the ends (pom poms) any that I cut off, long twiggy bits I gathered up and pushed round the edge of a pot 12 or so.

Packing away all the pots etc into their winter places I had a look at the root ball and it looks like they have all made roots ,:yess: So I will shelter them over winter and see how many come through in spring