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Janet · 18-04-2013, 11:45 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In article ,
says...

On 2013-04-18 00:32:01 +0100, said:
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Plants: if you want to reinstate what you removed elsewhere, cuttings
from it may be still good.

NT

I doubt very seriously that taking cuttings is a skill that has been
acquired by that garden owner, as yet! The 'scorched earth' policy
would rather argue against the likelihood!

There are many plants so easy to root that the most ignorant beginner
can poke sticks in the soil and some will produce a new plant. He's got
nothing to lose by trying. That's how most of us learnt to make
cuttings. Most experienced gardeners learned everything by trial and
error, by being impatient and ambitious and working ourselves to a sweat
soaked frazzle. I still do all that after 40+ years.

That's all he'd done; and far from being a total disaster it's the
harbinger of real energy, enthusiasm and determination which are the
mark of a future gardener who will make himself a great place and
treasure it.

It will be his very own, and just the way he likes it, until some
blinding inspiration strikes and he realises how much better it would
be if we just move this bed over here and that over there...why did I
ever plant that there...

I still do that, too.
Janet.