Building up your shrub collection for FREE

[Don_Kiddick 11]

This should be in top tips but..

 

Simply go for a walk with some snippers & plastic container with a small wad of moist cotton wool in it.

 

Take cuttings surreptitiously from parks & overhanging boundaries.

 

Store them in the container & plant up when you get home immediately in the normal way.

 

I've had great success with this method nicking euonimus, hebe, other semi-ripe cuttings norty or what?

[medusa 16]

Naughty it may be, but it's one of the reasons that my granddad has such a fabulous garden- copious visits to the Botanical Gardens in Brum, with a plastic bag and some damp cotton wool in his pocket, and very sharp thumbnails.

 

I had to admire his barefaced cheek, even when I was cringeing with embarrassment.

[Strix 11]

Some people take it a step further and turn up with a transit and a spade, and whip your mature shrubs

[yummyyumyum 10]

hiya id love my plants trees etc in my garden but pretty useless. there must be more to this than just snipping a branch off and sticking in cottonwool before planting. how do you prepare the branch before planting to ensure it grows??

[Don_Kiddick 11]

This is from the RHS website F_M Taking semi-ripe cuttings, it's fairly simply explained, but if you need any more in depth description,

I'd recommend typing into Google

TAKING CUTTINGS FROM [NAME YOUR PLANT] and see what comes up