Property News · September 30, 2022

Get your secateurs out now and prepare to fill next year’s garden with freebies | Alys Fowler


The time is perfect to take semi-ripe cuttings of your favourites – saving you effort, time and moneyBefore the garden truly loses its summer colours and the nights are too chilled, it is time to snip away green growth and take cuttings. Semi-ripe cuttings are deliciously easy: ripened over the summer, these are so willing to choose life that you merely have to wave them at free-draining conditions and out their miraculous roots creep.With a little care over winter, you can by spring have a whole gang of new plants to establish. The best subjects for semi-ripe cuttings are the things that survived the drought and the heatwaves – the things your garden needs more of, from Mediterranean perennial herbs such as rosemaries, lavenders, thymes and sages, to late-summer salvia and the verbenas, both trailing and upright. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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