overwintering cuttings?
 

Hi All,

A neighbour of mine left her house many years ago to take care of her sister
and never moved back, unfortunately due to a family squabble the house has
fallen on very bad times and the ladies garden has become overgrown and sad,
earlier this year we met and I commented on this and she told me to go in
her 'garden' and take cuttings of whatever I wanted as she loved her plants
and would like to think of them growing .
I took lots of cuttings in late spring/early summer and I am the first to
admit I don't know the names of lots of them, most of them were early spring
flowering shrubs as far as I can tell. Anyway, to the point of the post, the
survivors (about 50) are all doing very well in the greenhouse in small 4"
pots, some pots have only one, some have up to four cuttings. All the
cuttings now have new leaves on and seem very happy,(I haven't taken them
out to look for roots for fear of losing them) however, with thoughts of
winter approaching and being that my gh is unheated, how should I overwinter
them? A few thoughts I've had would be

a) put them in open topped cardboard boxes surrounded with bubblewrap and
bubblewrap accross the top?
b) put them towards the top of the staging with bubblewrap and cardboard
underneath?
c) take a chance they'll be ok, do nothing at all and just water sparingly
once a week and keep an eye on em and hope for the best?

As you can see from the above, I havent a clue!!

Any thoughts or help at this early stage would be appreciated

Many thanks
Shannie
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Shan (Ireland)
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