On the other hand, if you are trimming a plant and have
left-overs that might make good cuttings, it doesn't hurt to try
them at ANY time of the year. No sense wasting anything --
especially if it is waste in the first place. ;-)

Ha ha, try telling my wife that ;-) My driveway and path to the front
door regularly gets so jammed with stuff that I've propagated that it
takes a Herculanean effort to appease her and allow the posty in.

In the last couple of years I've started to delight in NOT keeping all
the bits I'm trimming. If I did, I'd have to move to a larger house
(again!). This self discipline has taken me years to achieve and is
still hard to master.

Example, once I'd discovered that snapping off new growth from my
collection of 20 varieties of Satsuki's would root easily, it grew to
more than 400 plants in a couple of years. Each spring I run out of
pots, feed, soil, patience and eventually decided that the only sensible
option was to sell them all! I kept the originals and one or two are
starting to look worthwhile. I'll post to the gallery in the fifth
month.

Cheers

Kev Bailey






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