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Advice onSoftwood buddleia Cuttings
I have obtained some cuttings of a very rare and special variety of
Buddleia davidii. I have never bothered propagating this plant as the best variety for butterflies is usually the wild one and seedlings are easy to come by. I have had to remove a small plant from my roof! This one is special. It flowers later and is exceptionally good. I have a few lengths of hardwood which I will stick in the ground. I also have about 15 short two-3 inch lengths of side shoot mostly with heels. Which I have been advised to plant as cuttings. I suspect a 60 % perlite 40% coir base would be best but would welcome advice as it will be at least a year before I go near the original plant again and I had a seven hour journey home. Also where should I put them. My choices are a cold greenhouse, outside, or a room that is unheated ( a spare bathroom) and where it is currently around 20c but where it can go below 10 in extremis in the winter. But where I occasionally warm it to dry clothes over a gas heater. Neil Jones http://www.butterflyguy.com/ |
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Advice onSoftwood buddleia Cuttings
On Sep 25, 9:55 am, "
wrote: I have obtained some cuttings of a very rare and special variety of Buddleia davidii. I have never bothered propagating this plant as the best variety for butterflies is usually the wild one and seedlings are easy to come by. I have had to remove a small plant from my roof! This one is special. It flowers later and is exceptionally good. I have a few lengths of hardwood which I will stick in the ground. I also have about 15 short two-3 inch lengths of side shoot mostly with heels. Which I have been advised to plant as cuttings. I suspect a 60 % perlite 40% coir base would be best but would welcome advice as it will be at least a year before I go near the original plant again and I had a seven hour journey home. Also where should I put them. My choices are a cold greenhouse, outside, or a room that is unheated ( a spare bathroom) and where it is currently around 20c but where it can go below 10 in extremis in the winter. But where I occasionally warm it to dry clothes over a gas heater. Neil Jones / I am no cuttings expert but given a choice between those above, I would vote for the cold greenhouse. Des |
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Advice onSoftwood buddleia Cuttings
On Sep 25, 9:55 am, "
wrote: This one is special. It flowers later and is exceptionally good. Also where should I put them. If you have a greenhouse, it is indeed the best place but you can keep them outdoor too. But what colour is this 'special' one? I have a fantastic 'Empire Blue' which smells of honey and a 'White Cloud'. |
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Advice onSoftwood buddleia Cuttings
In article .com, Des
Higgins writes I am no cuttings expert but given a choice between those above, I would vote for the cold greenhouse. Des Bottom heat could help like soil cable in sand, they like their heads to be coolish. If it's very rare then maybe it's a swine to propagate? Colvilei is awful to root, weryiana is a doodle, so it helps to know which one it is. There is a silvery leafed variety that is almost impossible, can't remember the name but it was at Chelsea about four years ago, has slender long silvery leaves and insignificant flowers. I thought it was silver ghost or silver wedding? -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Advice onSoftwood buddleia Cuttings
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:37:41 +0100, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article .com, Des Higgins writes I am no cuttings expert but given a choice between those above, I would vote for the cold greenhouse. Des Bottom heat could help like soil cable in sand, they like their heads to be coolish. If it's very rare then maybe it's a swine to propagate? Colvilei is awful to root, weryiana is a doodle, so it helps to know which one it is. There is a silvery leafed variety that is almost impossible, can't remember the name but it was at Chelsea about four years ago, has slender long silvery leaves and insignificant flowers. I thought it was silver ghost or silver wedding? This variety is as I said in the original posting a variety of Davidii. It is not rare because it is difficult to propagate. It is rare because it is relatively new in cultivation. It has the standard colour flower but a later flowering season. Indeed the parent plant is still flowering and consequently attracting a lot of late butterflies when a lot of flowers they would otherwise use have finished. The parent plant was , I believe, obtained from its discoverer who found it in China. I think the standard colour is probably best for butterflies as it is the natural colour which I would expect to have evolved for maximum pollination. Neil Jones http://www.butterflyguy.com/ |
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