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Uncle Marvo · 09-11-2007, 10:35 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In reply to Janet Tweedy ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

In article , Sacha
writes

Wonderful photo - just shows what willpower can do for you. ;-)

Oh yeah right, sod's law. Why won't those little cuttings that you
treat really well, giving them undying love and attention and just
the right conditions as per the Book, do the same?
Perhaps they should be dealt with a bit harsher, show who's Boss in
the garden sort of thing

I had some cuttings last year of rarish conifers and two variegated
shrubs. |They didn't die, put on growth and started to come into leaf,
but would they develop roots? Would they heck!!

Isn't that normally because you don't take the heel off in the right place?
I am having some success with a few shrubs at the moment cos I'm too tight
to buy them, and I have found what I'm looking for elsewhere so I just
stole* 6 pieces. They seem to be rooting, I've got them in peat pots so I
can relocate them if and when they get their strength up :-)

They're euonymus, which is almost certainly wrongly spelt.

* with owners permission, obviously.