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Old 23-03-2018, 03:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Dan S. MacAbre[_2_] Dan S. MacAbre[_2_] is offline
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Default Tough Snowberry :-)

Martin Brown wrote:
On 23/03/2018 14:18, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
I took a cutting of a snowberry growing by the side of a main road
last year. Even though I covered it with a plastic bag, the leaves
fell off after a few months, leaving a thin stalk. At the end of
last year, I was emptying the pot to put away, and I noticed the
stalk had a couple of short roots at the bottom. Not expecting much,
I put it back in compost and left it in the back garden. Now,
against all expectation, the thing has a couple of small leaves
growing.


Be careful what you wish for it is quite an invasive thug in a small
garden - rather more so than ivy or honeysuckle IME.


I gathered that, since it is everywhere around here :-) I'll put it
somewhere where it hopefully won't have room to go far.