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I tried to take some cuttings of honeysuckle and wild rose from our hedgerows a while back - I wanted to propagate local wild hedge species to restore the hedge around our plot. The honeysuckle ones rotted almost instantly, and I think I did manage to root one rose out of 8 cuttings. :-/ I do NOT have the knack of cuttings....
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SP, I'm chopping back some shrubs now ...........do you want cuttings of,
Forsythia,
Weigela - green leaves and red flowers
Weigela - variegated leaves with pink flowers
Fuchsias - hardy perennial bush
Camellias - various single and double.
I've grown all of these using the VC "bung it in a bucket of water and forget about it" technique.
Camellias are a bit fussier so I've sometimes shove a few in a pot of soil as well. Can't be too difficult as I'm growing a camellia hedge from cuttings!Last edited by veggiechicken; 06-09-2019, 11:15 AM.Comment
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Yes please VCOriginally posted by veggiechicken View Post
I had to google Camellias & weigela
they are very pretty.
I can send you a mini fuchsia cutting I think they’ve taken there’s new growth and / or cranesbill ( I don’t know the name ), physocarpus, black currant, oregano, ginger mint?and buddleia when I know it’s taken.Comment
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No need to send me anything, SP, thanks. I have more than I can find places for!!
Didn't think you liked soft fruit - 'cos I can send you jostaberry cuttings if you want some. They're a cross between blackcurrants and gooseberries - no thorns.
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Camellias prefer acidy soil which you probably have as I've seen the rhododendrons on the roadside!
Mine grow like trees - they're up to the 1st floor windows and need cutting back severely. I love them as they're evergreen, flower throughout the winter - there's one that flowers in December and the bees love them.Comment
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Thanks VC but he11 no ! To the jostaberryOriginally posted by veggiechicken View PostNo need to send me anything, SP, thanks. I have more than I can find places for!!
Didn't think you liked soft fruit - 'cos I can send you jostaberry cuttings if you want some. They're a cross between blackcurrants and gooseberries - no thorns. it’s taken nearly 6 years but I think I’ve finally managed to kill the one here 
. You’re right I don’t like soft fruit but the blackbirds do. I was thinking maybes the black currant as part of an edible hedge somewhere, maybe?
That reminds me, must try taking cuttings from the red currant ( I like red currant jelly)Comment
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I have jostaberries and their extremely prickly cousins, Worcesterberries, blackberries and wineberries, hazel and elder in a hedge. I rarely pick any - they're for the birds.Comment
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Camellias should love it up here then. Can you get climbing ones? I think the place I used to work had a climbing one. It was either that or it was just really leggy fighting for space and light against climbing roses & clematis.Originally posted by veggiechicken View PostComment
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Don't know about climbing ones - mine are more like trees!!Comment
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Thinking back, I think the poor thing was just struggling. But I do remember it was very pretty with its shiny glossy leaves and big pink flowers. It looked like a very odd palm tree with a very skinny 10ft trunk and half a dozen little branches sticking out the top.Originally posted by veggiechicken View PostComment
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Here's the earliest one - 15thJanuary, I'm standing beneath it - the window is the half landing on the stairs.
This is another one - front hedge grown from cutting. - also 15th jan.
Last edited by veggiechicken; 06-09-2019, 12:39 PM.Comment
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Wow that is big and beautiful. I’ll have to select a good spot at the top of the garden where he can just go nuts
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Red currant cuttings taken
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Taken some cuttings from this hydrangea
The white ones have taken nicely. Just need to steal a branch from a blue one up the road ( after asking first obviously)
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(Red currant jelly is the Beginning and Ending of All Things. i.e it's Da Bomb :-D)Comment
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