Are there any plants that you can literally stick a piece off it in to the ground and it will grow into another?
2007-11-07 06:59:35 · 7 answers · asked by AnneShirley03-03-07 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Hi again Anne Shirley, I can answer this!
Actually there are loads of plants you can do this with:
1) Most rock plants with rosettes
2) Hardy fuchsias
3) Privet
3) Many shrubs at the right time of year (sorry too many to list)
4) Honeysuckles
I could go on but I suppose it depends on how green your thumbs are!
2007-11-08 03:00:59 · answer #1 · answered by wendy k 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have reproduced eight Geraniums using this method. Just pick a non flowering stalk from the original stalk and cut it carefully with a garden shears. Then dig a small hole maybe half the height of the cutting and stick it in the ground. You must water it frequently and you can use a slow release fertilizer. I removed the cutting from the soil in about 6-10 weeks and transferred to a pot and now it is flowering. You could also leave in it in the soil until the end of the summer season and then transplant to a pot.
2007-11-08 01:39:23 · answer #2 · answered by gardener 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brugmansia/Angel Trumpet, Plumeria, Willow, Asiatic Jasmine, Potato Vine, Spider plants and several Cacti are the easiest.
It really depends on the cold zone too, the ones mentioned are mainly for zone 7-10, warm weather
2007-11-07 10:50:55 · answer #3 · answered by KnitOneCurseOne 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't happen EVERY time no matter what you take as a cutting. Get a small amount of ROOTONE at a garden store - dip a cutting in it and put it in the ground. Try it with lots of different things. Easiest might be lupines, euonymous, vines.
2007-11-07 07:05:58 · answer #4 · answered by misselie1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, there is the low growing, but very lovely Portulaca (AKA rose moss or moss rose) You can literally drop a piece of it on the ground and it will root right there. This is also true of most succulents.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ks-ans&va=portulaca+flowers&sz=all
Chamomile will also root where it sits. I had some seedlings that I forgot about and I found them laying on the ground still in their pots and when I went to pick them up I discovered that they rooted to the ground right through the holes in the pots.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A9G_RqzyQzJHc3cA6iqJzbkF?p=chamomile&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&x=wrt&js=1&ni=21
2007-11-07 10:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by Sptfyr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
buddlia ,and ivy lav atria
2007-11-07 10:03:53 · answer #6 · answered by lancashire lass 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
willow,
2007-11-07 07:05:24 · answer #7 · answered by Emma Jean 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋