On Apr 11, 2:02*pm, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I see lots of trees now from which I'd love to grow a cutting.
But is that a complete waste of time during the flowering season?

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Timothy Murphy *
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Most of the trees you are coveting will not have suitable cutting
material on atm & in any case many will be propagated by grafting
which you can't do now because you have no rootstocks established and
it's too far into the growing season anyway. It will soon be a good
time to take softwood cuttings of certain shrubs.
I'm assuming of course that you will have the owner's permission.
Otherwise expect some serious wrath upon you and well deserved.
Sometimes when I had the garden at work open, the day after looked
like the aftermath of a swarm of locusts and mostly the cuttings would
have been taken by folks who didn't know what good cutting material
was and wouldn't know how to root it anyway.
I am very generous with cuttings/seeds etc if asked and if it's in
good condition at the time of asking. And I've often benefitted by the
generosity of others

Rod