The Willow sticks I put in a vase of water are now making new leaves. They have a good root system now, so suddenly they feel like they can support leaf growth. Basically, it's now a new tree. I guess I should plant them now? I don't know what I'm doing, but, I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner. Also, I realized you can put whatever size stick you want in water. Some of mine are three footers. So, I am not planting some piddly start an inch tall. They look like...trees. This leaf growth means they now need light, like a regular plant. So, outside they go. I guess. Hell, I don't know. Shaded pots for sure. They're still tender. Oh, the Dogwood sticks I put in with them look good too. The Honeysuckle told me to fuck off. I was taking advantage of the rooting hormone found naturally in Willow and figuring out what works.
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honeysuckle will just root itself in the dirt....that's how mine spreads....it branches out, the branches grow roots into the dirt cuz when i go to arrange some of the vines i find they have rooted themselves.....
Yeah, I was experimenting. I've noticed Trumpet grows that way too. And Forsythia. Strawberries. Lots of stuff. I have accidental rooted plants in my potted annuals this year where I sat them to close to shrubs. More work..lol. But, I won't let them go to waste. You wouldn't believe how many Strawberry plants I have now from those little free pots. It's crazy. I have to make a strawberry bed next time it rains.
Oh, and Holly roots that way. I have a new plant off the one CJ sent me. I have three now. The one I bought is the only one that died. Go figure.
oh yeah, trumpet vines spread like hell.....strawberries will sucker off too, though apparently they make some that don't do that (who wouldn't want MORE strawberry plants?) raspberry plants spread....my forsythia hasn't spread....i have no holly.....
i hope your neighbours dont kill them. ive had similar success with my daisy. i pruned it and took a small branch and just stuck it in the ground and it has shot up at least a foot. everything in my garden shoots straight up to the sky because my garden is surrounded by walls and buildings. so they just grow up towards the sun as fast as they can.
Nice. I wish my garden was walled. That would be so cool. What kind of Daisy? What you did is called a hard cutting. I need to learn more about that. I'll mark the willows good, but, they're going in pots by the hose so they don't dry out.
Tia, I would love to see more pics of your yard. You have some cool stuff.
my yard is really over grown right now, but i DO have some pix of my huge ass butterfly bush....i can email that to ya probably tomorrow as i gotta get this letter done to send out this morning and then get it out, etc....
K. I was wanting to see the stuff in general. I know you have things I don't and I was curious.
I remember when I was a kid how we learned to put 2 different trees together, like a cut branch from 1 tree onto a cut branch on a standing tree, cut at an angle, bind them, raw sides together and supposedly thats how some new kinds of trees were made. Long ago. Did anybody else learn that in school? We had really good science when I was a kid and I loved it.
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You are one smart lady!
Remember in school, learning how to graft 2 different trees together? & it works! Trees just want to grow. They try hard at it.
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Oh, if you saw some of the shit I've failed at, you'd be saying 'what a dumbass.'
Yay for Buddy Holly! If I remember correctly, He was a branch that had gone underground & rooted... then kept on growing. Could be Buddy did well in your yard because he was acclimated to the cold winters from here and the one you bought was trucked in from a nursery in the south?
Tia, I'll look under my hollies & see if there are more branches that have rooted.
DD, I've been hiding from you. I killed the clematis :( ... or maybe is was my yard or the critters that killed it. I've never had any luck with clematis.
I hauled a couple large viburnum volunteers to Pittsburgh over the weekend. My uncle should be ok with his (he can grow anything). My cousin will probably kill hers!
just ordinary daisey bush, ill send you a pic.. geraniums are good for this also.
LOL Clematis murderer.
Thanks Lia. Me and geraniums don't mix. I can't get them through a winter here. I've tried the window and bag method. Nope. They don't like me.
Hanging my head in shame :(
The EX had an aunt who would dig up her geraniums every year, bag them & hang upside down in the basement. Every year they came back and she replanted them in her yard. I tried it one year. Had 15 bags of them hanging from the basement rafters. In the spring I had 15 bags of very dead geraniums.
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