Originally Posted by John McGaw

On 6/24/2012 10:17 PM, karaman wrote:
hallo,

my friend has taken a fancy to my yellowish-red-flowering cytisus. it
really likes to be where i have put it and made a lovely show earlier
this year.

now that flowering is over, thought i might take a cutting and pop it
into a cutting compost. would this work or should i just buy one for
her birthday?

thanks

karaman




With many plants softwood cuttings dipped in rooting hormone and planted in
sterile potting mix is worth a try. It will either work or it won't but if
it doesn't the effort and expense is minimal. If yours is the plant I'm
thinking about it is usually a prolific seed producer and a fast grower,
verging on the weedy, so there may be little to gain with anything beyond
growing from seed.

For my own purposes I lean toward simply taking a dozen cuttings from a
plant I like (sometimes I even ask first), dipping them, and stuffing them
in a large pot of ordinary potting mix from the garden center, and then
putting this out in the yard in a protected spot and letting it fend for
itself. If after a year or two outdoors I have a few living specimens to
use I figure that it is survival of the fittest.

Just my £0.02 worth, of course...