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My google skills appear to be failing me today. Does anyone have any
experience of how to go about propogating a mandeville plant? My
neighbour
and I both have one each - mine is currently in full flower, she's sulking
cos hers is just starting to bud. :-)

I wondered about taking cuttings, but it's one of those plants that seems
to
bleed a lot when it is snapped, so I'm not sure a cutting would work at
all.

Anyone got any suggestions (preferably from experience)

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Normal nodal cuttings of about 4-6" with reduced leaf root quite quickly
with bottom heat and mist so I would expect a plastic bag and warm (not
sunny) place to work just as well.

When you prepare the cutting the cut at the base is the last one to make,
and dip immediately into hormone rooting powder, this staunches the flow of
sap which if left prevents rooting.


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Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk