Posts Tagged ‘cuttings’

New shoots at the nic of time!

I took some cuttings of some daisy type plants the other week.  Actually, less of a cutting and more of a pulling and ripping, I came with the roots too!   It looked like one of those plants that rooted well and everywhere going by the amount of plant available.  I popped the roots straight into [...]

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Sedium Cuttings

Someone allowed me to take some cuttings from their garden and so I had a couple of snips of Sedium.  I have popped them in some water on the window sill and wait now to spot the first roots growing…. We had Sedium in the garden of our previous house and had a bit of [...]

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Lavender Trimmed and New Plants Added

The other week I mentioned that really I woud like to replace the lavender as it had got all woody, but really that was me thinking allowed as I know only too well that my dis-organisation would mean that these lavenders will last for at least another year.   It was suggested that I should try [...]

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Lavender Ready for Renewal?

This has taken quite a bit of rough treatment over the years, even more so when we got T&J Little Tikes cars each and then bikes.   How many children have falling into the lavender or driven into it?   It is now looking all a bit of a woody mess and it has a great big [...]

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Lavender Cuttings Now 15 Months Old

There was a high casualty rate but I think it has been worth it.  From last September, we now have two pots of good looking lavender which must be around a 10% success rate, lol!!  Maybe next time I will have more success, having done it once now before. These will stay here and possibly [...]

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Lavender Cuttings

A bit of an experiment as we have never done anything like this before. I was thinking how we needed some young lavender plants to replace some of the older woody ones that we have and worried about how much it would all cost when I though how silly, we have all we need and [...]

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